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Navy Now Wants A Third DDG-1000 Next Year

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By Emelie Rutherford The Navy has shifted course and now wants to buy a DDG-1000 in fiscal year 2009, though the service hopes to stop purchasing the destroyer after that third ship and continue with the controversial plan it unveiled last month to restart production of the older DDG-51s. Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England and Navy Secretary Donald Winter revealed plans for the third DDG-1000 in letters sent Monday to a series of lawmakers, including those critical of the Navy's…

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