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Fincantieri: contract to build 10 ships for the US Navy, with hangar for two helicopters

Trieste, Italy - For a worth of USD 4 bn

Fincantieri, in partnership with Lockheed Martin, world industry in the Defense sector, has gained a contract for the construction of 10 Littoral Combat Ships. The first vessel is worth 437 million dollars and the remaining nine ships will be purchased by a number of options to be exercised by the US Navy within 2015, taking the total value of the contract to over 4 billion dollars. The LCS program...

fra/pec - 1124308
Rome, Italy, 12/30/2010 16:00
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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