The $645 million Freedom arrived in the fleet in late 2008; the Navy commissioned its $704 million cousin Independence in January 2010. They’re the first of 20 more LCSs that will cost the Navy at least $450 million per ship through 2015.
It looks to me like it was designed to solve the only current clear and present maritime danger to American shipping – the pirates operating in the Red Sea and Indian Ocean. Not!
US Navy website for the USS Independence
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