Foreign Correspondence

[Amaunet]

The U.S. probably plans on using one or more of these Littoral Combat Ships in the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is the first of a new family of surface ships for the US Navy. The LCS is a fast, highly maneuverable, networked surface combat ship, which is a specialized variant of the family of US future surface combat ships known as DD(X). LCS is designed to satisfy the urgent requirement for shallow draft vessels to operate in the littoral (coastal waters) to counter growing potential "asymmetric" threats of coastal mines, quiet diesel submarines and the potential to carry explosives and terrorists on small, fast, armed boats.

United Press International, for instance, reported last week that the Pentagon was eyeing bases on Romania's scenic Black Sea coast and that the Romanians (whose plans for a world-class, Disney-style Dracula theme park seem to have fallen through) were eager to be of well-paid service in the "war on terror".
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-Am





The General Dynamics team design is a high-speed trimaran with a slender stabilized monohull.




The Lockheed Martin team design is a high-speed semi-planing monohull.




Preliminary core configuration of mission and combat systems - GD design.