Naval Littoral Ship Deployed In Spite Of Exhibiting 'Vulnerabilities'

The Pentagon's testing office said it found vulnerabilities in the littoral combat ship Fort Worth last fall weeks before the vessel deployed to Asia, reports Bloomberg News.

The total ship survivability test conducted off the coast of Southern California in October "highlighted the existence of significant vulnerabilities" in the Freedom-class design built by Lockheed Martin, Michael Gilmore, the head of combat testing for the Pentagon, said in an assessment for Congress that...