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Monday, October 29th, 2012

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Rolls On Amphibious Craft. Rolls-Royce has been selected to provide the engines for the Navy and Marine Corps’ next generation of amphibious landing craft known as the Ship-to-Shore Connector (SSC). Rolls Royce will provide the engines for hovercrafts being built by Textron’s marine systems unit. Textron won the contract in July to build the SSCs, valued at $212.7 million for the first hovercraft. Options for eight more would bring the total value to $570.5 million. Rolls Royce said it will…

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