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Lockheed Martin’s LCS Follow-On Could Subtract A Helicopter, Executive Says

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Lockheed Martin’s LCS Follow-On Could Subtract A Helicopter, Executive Says
USS Freedom (LCS-1). Photo: U.S. Navy.

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…

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