U.S. Navy Reports Corrosion Problems With LCS-2

The U.S. Navy is finding more structural problems with its new Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). The service acknowledged June 17 that LCS-2—the USS Independence built by the subsidiary of Australia’s Austal and General Dynamics—“is experiencing galvanic corrosion and pitting in the area of the water jet...

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