Costs Ballooning for New Combat Ship

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<p><a href=“http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/06/navy_roughead_070613w/[/url]”>http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/06/navy_roughead_070613w/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Despite major cost problems with the program and some skepticism about the design concepts, Adm. Gary Roughead remains convinced that Littoral Combat Ships are the ships the Navy needs.</p>

<p>“I’ve always believed in the LCS, believed in the need for LCS,” he said. “And that’s just reaffirmed to me that that is going to be a ship of the future for the U.S. Navy.”…

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