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HASC Subcommittee Mark Includes Subs And Multi-Year F-18 Pacts

HASC Subcommittee Mark Includes Subs And Multi-Year F-18 Pacts
The Virginia-class attack submarine USS Mississippi (SSN 782) departs Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for routine operations. General Dynamics' sales in the quarter benefited from work on the Block IV version of the class. Photo: U.S. Navy

The House Armed Services Committee's (HASC) seapower and projection forces panel conducted a markup of its portion of the FY ’19 National Defense Authorization Act Thursday, adding several ships to the Trump administration’s budget request.The mark supports 13 ships, three above the request. This includes two Virginia-class attack submarines (SSNs), three DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, two T-AO-205 oilers, one Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB), one T-ATS towing, salvage, and rescue ship, the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) requested and two more, and…

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