The Navy's only forward-deployed Littoral Combat Ship in the Pacific is undergoing repairs in Singapore following a casualty to its combining gears early last month.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
Justin Doubleday was managing editor of Inside the Pentagon until June 2021, where he focused on defense-wide topics including budgets, acquisition policy, combatant commands, missile defense and cyber. He has also worked for ITP sister publications Inside the Army and Inside the Navy. Justin previously reported for The Chronicle of Higher Education. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2013.
The Navy's only forward-deployed Littoral Combat Ship in the Pacific is undergoing repairs in Singapore following a casualty to its combining gears early last month.
Naval Air Systems Command is still seeking additional international customers for the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor helicopter, with the U.S. military's procurement of the Bell-Boeing aircraft projected to temporarily slow down in the coming years.
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