Navy fleet oiler to undergo sea trials in December

By Audrey Decker / September 29, 2021 at 2:04 PM
The T-AO 205 John Lewis Fleet Oiler will undergo sea trials this December. General Dynamics NASSCO is still on track to deliver the ship by March of next year, Dennis DuBard, manager of government relations at NASSCO, told Inside Defense in an interview on Tuesday. The John Lewis’ schedule was previously delayed from June 2021 to March 2022 primarily due to flooding of the shipyard’s graving dock in July 2018. The T-AO 206 Harvey Milk is currently being built...

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