Search This Blog

Thursday, April 02, 2009

Fincantieri to Build USS Fort Worth, Next Ship for the US Navy

USS Freedom (LCS-1)The consortium led by Lockheed Martin, of which Fincantieri is a member, has been awarded an order by the US Navy to build “USS Fort Worth”, named after the town in Texas.

This further vessel in the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program will be built by Fincantieri Marine Group at the shipyard of Marinette Marine Corporation (Marinette, Wisconsin) which delivered the first ship in the program, the “USS Freedom”, in September 2008.

The order has been financed by the allocation by the US Congress of 1 billion dollars for two LCS ships which will be purchased by the US Navy in 2009.

Read more
om

No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: only a member of this blog may post a comment.

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Fair Use Notice

This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner.

The material is being made available in an effort to advance understanding arms trade activities, for non-profit research and educational purposes only.

I believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.

If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.

This is a completely non-commercial site for private personal use. No fee is charged, and no money is made off of the operation of this site.