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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Lockheed Provides Saudis Info on LCS

USS Freedom (LCS-1)Lockheed Martin has supplied price and availability information on its version of the littoral combat ship (LCS) to Saudi Arabia, which is looking to buy eight modern frigate-sized warships, a senior executive said Oct. 26.

Saudi Arabia is one of the "bright opportunities," along with the Asia/Pacific region, as foreign navies look to upgrade capabilities despite the downturn in defense spending, Orlando Carvalho, president, Lockheed Mission Systems & Sensors, told journalists on the sidelines of the Euronaval trade show.

The information is "one of the first steps in the FMS" (Foreign Military Sales) procedure overseen by the pentagon, under which the U.S. Navy and the Saudi Navy are in talks on acquiring the ships.

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