02/10/2020
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"A recent article in Defense News says that each LCS costs about $70 million a year to operate."
"I have a very different view of the littoral combat ship than my colleague, and I would like to drill down on this a little bit."
"The Freedom class is, in my view and in the view of many, terribly unreliable, with the Little Rock, Detroit, and Sioux City all recently experiencing major propulsion failures."
"I would much rather see us spending some of that money there than on ships that don't float."