The future USS Freedom, the first ship in the Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship class, is underway Monday, July 28, 2008, to begin Builder's Trials in Lake Michigan. Builder's Trials test propulsion, communications, navigation, and mission systems. LCS is a fast, agile, focused-mission ship designed to defeat threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft. The 378-foot future USS Freedom is being designed and built by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team. (Photographer: Navy Visual News Service.)The nation's first Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom, put to sea for the first time on July 28, 2008, marking the beginning of Builder's Trials for the first-in-class surface combatant. (Photographer: Navy Visual News Service.)The nation's first Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom, put to sea for the first time on July 28, 2008, marking the beginning of Builder's Trials for the first-in-class surface combatant. (Photographer: Navy Visual News Service.)The future USS Freedom, the first ship in the Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship class, is underway Monday, July 28, 2008, to begin Builder's Trials in Lake Michigan. Builder's Trials test propulsion, communications, navigation, and mission systems. LCS is a fast, agile, focused-mission ship designed to defeat threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft. The 378-foot future USS Freedom is being designed and built by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team. (Photographer: Navy Visual News Service.)The future USS Freedom, the first ship in the Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship class, is underway Monday, July 28, 2008, to begin Builder's Trials in Lake Michigan. Builder's Trials test propulsion, communications, navigation, and mission systems. LCS is a fast, agile, focused-mission ship designed to defeat threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft. The 378-foot future USS Freedom is being designed and built by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team. (Photographer: Navy Visual News Service.)The future USS Freedom, the first ship in the Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship class, is underway Monday, July 28, 2008 to begin Builder's Trials in Lake Michigan. Builder's Trials test propulsion, communications, navigation, and mission systems. LCS is a fast, agile, focused-mission ship designed to defeat threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft. The 378-foot future USS Freedom is being designed and built by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team. (Photographer: Navy Visual News Service.)
The future USS Freedom, the first ship in the Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship class, is underway Monday, July 28, 2008, to begin Builder's Trials in Lake Michigan. Builder's Trials test propulsion, communications, navigation, and mission systems. LCS is a fast, agile, focused-mission ship designed to defeat threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft. The 378-foot future USS Freedom is being designed and built by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team. (Photographer: Navy Visual News Service.)The future USS Freedom, the first ship in the Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship class, is underway Monday, July 28, 2008, to begin Builder's Trials in Lake Michigan. Builder's Trials test propulsion, communications, navigation, and mission systems. LCS is a fast, agile, focused-mission ship designed to defeat threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft. The 378-foot future USS Freedom is being designed and built by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team. (Photographer: Navy Visual News Service.)Related Article:
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If you are interested in learning more about Lockheed Martin, take a look at the company profile on Crocodyl. It goes into the details of some of the more unsavory aspects of this company's operating procedure.
http://www.crocodyl.org/wiki/lockheed_martin
If Obama has his way this ship will be renamed the USS Redistribution.
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