Pentagon Officials Eye SOUTHCOM As Permanent Home for 'Stiletto'

By Sebastian Sprenger / May 28, 2008 at 5:00 AM
As Pentagon officials get ready to transfer control of the experimental "Stiletto" ship to a military service or a combatant command, preliminary talks have begun about the possibility of leaving the prototype vessel with U.S. Southern Command, where it will be tested over the next few weeks, according to Defense Department sources. The ship is slated to leave its dock at Norfolk, VA, at the end of May and arrive at the northern Colombian port city of Cartagena in early...

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