U.S. Navy administrators want to decommission eight littoral combat ships based at Naval Station Mayport as part of a 2023 budget plan that would retire 24 vessels.
“As we look across LCS, this is a place where we have identified that there are real costs, especially for the Freedom class,” Meredith Berger, performing duties of undersecretary of the Navy, told reporters Monday as the service outlined its budget request to Congress. “…And so, we’re able to take that from the decom and put some of that funding toward some of the capability that we need.”
The Freedom variant is the type of LCS based at Mayport, and was the subject of decommissioning proposals last year as well.
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