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Navy: LCS-3 Damage Less Than Thought

By Marc Selinger

Friday, July 22nd, 2016

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Navy: LCS-3 Damage Less Than Thought

The USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) sailing out of San Diego in route to Singapore in 2014. (Photo: U.S. Navy)

The USS Fort Worth, a Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-3) that experienced an "engineering problem" in January, sustained less damage than an initial assessment indicated, a U.S. Navy spokesman said July 22.As a result, the Navy was able to fix the ship in Singapore, where the damage occurred, instead of having to wait until the ship arrived in San Diego later this summer for scheduled maintenance, said Lt. Clint Ramsden, a spokesman for the U.S. Pacific Fleet. "Follow-on tests showed…

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