
The USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is in the midst of its first deployment to Singapore, but so far the ship has needed only a fraction of the maintenance required by the first littoral combat ship, the USS Freedom (LCS-1).During the first 90 days of its deployment, the Freedom only spent 36 days of a planned 48 underway, losing 12 days because of maintenance needs, according to Navy documents obtained by Defense Daily.The Fort Worth, however, exceeded its 42-day goal, spending…