Lockheed Martin will not seek strategies to construct frigate based upon its Freedom alternative LCS
Lockheed Martin will certainly not contend in the bidding process to style and also construct the Navy’s next-generation guided-missile frigate competitors, reports the united stateNaval Institute
USNI information mentions Joe DePietro, Lockheed Martin vice head of state of tiny contenders and also ship systems as stating that, as opposed to pressing ahead with a frigate style based upon its Freedom alternative LCS, it will certainly concentrate on establishing the frigate’s fight and also various other systems.
Lockheed Martin, which constructs the Freedom alternative LCS at Fincantieri Marinette Marine has actually been just one of 5 rivals associated with the FFG (X) theoretical style stage. The others are: Austal U.S.A., home builder of the Independence alternative LCS, Ingalls Shipbuilding, General Dynamics and also Fincantieri Marinette Marine.
Although Fincantieri Marinette Marine is the home builder of the Lockheed Martin LCS, it has actually been completing to come to be the prime specialist for the FFG (X) with a layout based upon the FREMM frigate, in solution with the Italian Navy because 2012.
