After years of frequent mechanical failures ad embarrassing cost overruns, the Navy finally plans on deploying three hulls from its much-derided Littoral Combat Ship fleet by this fall after a protracted absence from the high seas, the U.S. Naval Institute reports.
The USS Little Rock, a Navy littoral combat ship commissioned in late December, finally left the port of Montreal this weekend, more than three months after docking there for a short stop on its maiden voyage.
While the USS Little Rock, a newly commissioned littoral combat ship, remains stuck in the ice in Montreal, a Marinette shipyard is helping the vessel get through the winter.
