U.S. Navy, Industry Mum On New LCS Hull Cost

By Paul McLeary

The U.S. Navy said Nov. 4 that it wants to split the buy for 20 new Littoral Combat Ships through 2015, 10 from Lockheed Martin and 10 from the Austal/General Dynamics team, both of which have built one ship each and are now at work on their second hulls.

Originally slated to cost $220 million per ship when the program was launched in 2002, the first two ships out of ...

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