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class: Littoral Combat Ship - LCS; Freedom class Builder: Marinette Marine Corporation, Marinette, Wisconsin, USA STATUS: Awarded: March 16, 2012 Laid down: June 27, 2013 Christened + Launched: July 18, 2015 Commissioned: December 16, 2017 IN SERVICE > decommissioning planned for 2023 Homeport: Naval Station Mayport, Florida Namesake: City of Little Rock, Arkansas Ships Motto: BACK WITH A VENGEANCE Technical Data: see: INFO > Freedom class Littoral Combat Ship - LCS |
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USS Little Rock (LCS 9): The ship was delivered to the United States Navy on 25 September 2017. The ship was commissioned alongside the earlier Galveston-class cruiser USS Little Rock at Buffalo, New York on 16 December 2017. The commissioning ceremony marked the first time a U.S. Navy ship has commissioned next to her namesake. After commissioning in Buffalo, New York, she headed to home port at Mayport Naval Station, Florida where she is assigned to Littoral Combat Ship Squadron Two. However, harsh winter conditions caused delays, preventing her from leaving St. Lawrence Seaway and she was stuck in ice at the port in Montreal. Little Rock remained there until 31 March 2018. From 23 to 29 May 2018, Little Rock participated in New York City's annual Fleet Week celebrations. She was docked in Staten Island and open to public tours during the time. In January 2020 it was reported that the ship would be equipped with a laser weapon system, most likely the 150-kilowatt class HELIOS system developed by Lockheed Martin. On 6 February 2020 Little Rock began its first deployment. Deployed to U.S. Southern Command, the ship is expected to conduct operations in support of the multinational campaign Operation Martillo targeting international drug trafficking in Central American coastal waters. Little Rock deployed with the surface warfare mission-package and a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment. Little Rock was planned to be inactivated in FY 2022, and to join the Out of Commission in Reserve (OCIR) list. However, in the final 2022 budget, Congress blocked the Navy's request to retire the ship. U.S. Navy officials first announced in 2022 that nine Freedom-class littoral combat ships would be decommissioned as part of the 2023 fiscal year budget. The Little Rock is scheduled to be decommissioned on March 31 at Mayport Naval Station in Florida, where it is stationed. wikipedia |
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Little Rock ... is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Arkansas. As the county seat of Pulaski County, the city was incorporated on November 7, 1831, on the south bank of the Arkansas River close to the state's geographic center. The city derived its name from a rock formation along the river, named the "Little Rock" (French: La Petite Roche) by the French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la Harpe in the 1720s. The capital of the Arkansas Territory was moved to Little Rock from Arkansas Post in 1821. The city's population was 197,312 in 2019 according to the United States Census Bureau. The six-county Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) is ranked 78th in terms of population in the United States with 738,344 residents according to the 2017 estimate by the United States Census Bureau. |
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