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Navy finally finds something the LCS is good at: Stopping drug smuggling
Littoral Combat Ships are fast, have an embarked helicopter and other equipment that make them good at catching drug ...
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LCS 27: US Navy inducts fast, agile, shallow-draft, networked surface ship
Reconfigurable spaces and weapons modules support service ... the US Navy has received its 14th Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), USS Nantucket (LCS 27). Nantucket was accepted from ...
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Littoral Combat Ship Might Be Making a 'Comeback'
The U.S. Navy’s Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Nantucket (LCS-27 ... against mine threats using sensors and ...
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US Navy warship on first deployment makes two drug busts in 72 hours
The Freedom-class littoral combat ship Minneapolis-Saint Paul departs on March 26 on her maiden deployment. (Brandon J. Vinson/U.S.Navy) Two alleged drug smuggling operations were brought to a ...
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Textron Systems Drone Makes First Flight From Navy Littoral Combat Ship
Textron Systems was awarded a Naval Air Systems Command Center (NAVAIR) contract to provide UAS operational support to one Freedom Class ... from a U.S. Navy littoral combat ship (LCS), according ...
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Navy finally finds something the LCS is good at: Stopping drug smuggling
USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, a Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship, made two drug busts within 72 hours, seizing more than $9.5 million of cocaine and roughly $2.8 million of marijuana.