The Navy will send the Austal-made Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-2) to a Florida shipyard to undergo repairs into next month after the service discovered corrosion problems on the vessel, according to Naval Sea Systems Command spokesman Chris Johnson. "The planned short-term mitigation for LCS-2 is to install doubler plates, 360 degrees around the exterior of all four water jet tunnel cone assemblies (interior to the ship) as well as a portion of the tunnels where the majority of the pitting...
