Navy Gets 'Box of Rockets' for New Ship

As DANGER ROOM readers already know, the Navy recently commissioned the USS Freedom, the first of 55 planned Littoral Combat Ships. If all goes to plan -- and that's a big "if" -- the fast, shore-hugging ships are will give the Navy access to contested shorelines. One of the key features of the LCS will be the plug-and-play "mission modules" that will allow the LCS to take on a range of tasks: mine-hunting, anti-submarine warfare, and surface warfare. For striking targets onshore, the Navy plans to experiment with the Army's Non-Line-of-Sight Launch System, a batch of containerized precision attack missiles originally developed for the gajillion-dollar Future Combat Systems modernization effort.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/12/navy-gets-box-o.html

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