US Navy exercises purchase option for LCS 31
The US Navy exercised on January 15 a contract option with Lockheed Martin Corporation to purchase one Freedom-class littoral combat ship (LCS).
The ship has been designated LCS 31 and will be built at Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wisconsin.
LCS 31 will be the sixteenth Freedom-class ship to be built for the US Navy.
