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Friday, August 10, 2012

Construction begins on 11th LPD for US Navy

LPD-17 class |Work on the US Navy's 11th and final San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship LPD 27 has started at Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) shipbuilding division.

Ingalls LPD programme vice president Doug Lounsberry said: "Lessons learned and production improvements from all the previous LPDs have been incorporated into LPD 26 and are being rolled over into LPD 27."

Under the $1.5bn contract awarded recently to HII for detail design and construction of the LPD 27, fabrication work will be followed by keel laying currently scheduled to take place in the second quarter of 2013.

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