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Friday, January 13, 2012

LCS Dives Into Irregular Warfare With New Mission Package

USS Freedom (LCS-1)The Navy's Littoral Combat Ship is now in the irregular warfare business, the top service official in charge of the program said today.

Naval Sea Systems Command is developing a new LCS mission package focusing on irregular warfare operations.

Those capabilities will fall more toward the humanitarian and disaster relief-types of missions under the IW banner, LCS Program Executive Officer Rear Adm. James Murdoch, said during a speech at the Surface Warfare Association's annual conference.

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