Whether you call the LCS the modern equivalent of a torpedo boat, or the modern equivalent of a torpedo boat destroyer, either way it is a validation of the threat from small, fast ships so well chronicled in Joe Hinds’s THE DEFINITIVE ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE TORPEDO BOAT.
We will increase the buy of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) – a key capability for presence, stability, and counterinsurgency operations in coastal regions – from two to three ships in FY 2010. Our goal is to eventually acquire 55 of these ships.
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