Navy asserts LCS set for summer delivery

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Navy asserts LCS set for summer delivery
By Christopher P. Cavas - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Apr 18, 2008 6:23:25 EDT

The Navy’s first Littoral Combat Ship remains on track for delivery this summer, service and shipbuilder officials said, belying a blogger’s claim that the ship will be a year late.

“We’re on track for trials beginning in May. We’re on track for a summer 2008 delivery,” said Diana Massing, a spokeswoman for Lockheed Martin.

“LCS 1 starts builder’s trials next month and is scheduled to deliver in August 2008,” declared Lt. Cmdr. John Schofield, a Navy spokesman.

The statements contradict a claim by Internet blogger Tim Colton that the Freedom (LCS 1) “will now probably not be delivered before the spring of 2009, if then and if ever.”

Colton referred to “a mass gathering of incompetent people” this week at Marinette, Wis., where the ship is under construction by Marinette Marine.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/04/defense_lcs_OK_041608/



uhc comment: And it only costs $600,000,000 (or so).