
Lockheed Martin’s [LMT] offering to the Navy for the follow-on Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) to meet the small surface combatant requirement could remove one of two MH-60 helicopters currently meant to operate off the ship to make room for a vertical launch system, a company executive said Monday. The Lockheed Martin variant of the LCS known as the Freedom does not have a vertical launch system for firing missiles. As part of the Navy’s review of the LCS program, the…