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Navy And Marines Move To Buy New Light Amphibs In 2022

Thursday, January 14th, 2021

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Navy And Marines Move To Buy New Light Amphibs In 2022

Australia’s Sea Transport Solutions’ stern landing vessel design concept. (Image: Sea Transport Solutions)

A top Navy official confirmed the service aims to buy the first new Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) by late 2022 to help add maritime options to the future fleet. “My suspicion is that we'll begin RDT&E next year. And that we are aiming at lead ship construction in FY ‘22. It's going to be late in FY ‘22. But I still consider that pretty fast. We're just going to build one, get that out and start playing with it. We'll…

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