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Post by ferryfast admin on May 11, 2012 11:06:50 GMT -5
U.S. plans 10-month warship deployment to Singapore
(U.S. Navy, Lockheed-Martin,…)
May 10, 2012|Jim Wolf | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The first of a new class of U.S. coastal warships will be sent to Singapore next spring for a roughly 10-month deployment, the Navy said on Wednesday, spotlighting a move that may stir China's fears of U.S. involvement in South China Sea disputes.
Deployment of the shallow-draft ship "Freedom" will help refine crew rotations, logistics and maintenance processes to maximize the class's value to U.S. combat commanders, Rear Admiral Thomas Rowden, the Navy's director of surface warfare, told reporters.
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