"The future USS Little Rock, shown here at its launch in July 2015, is one of the Navy's monohull variants of the littoral combat ship, or LCS. The LCS also comes in a trimaran, or multihull, variant.<br /> <br />The Little Rock is 378 feet long with a displacement weight of 3,000 tons.<br /> <br />The service has 24 of the vessels in the fleet under construction or under contract.<br /> <br />According to a Navy fact file, ""The LCS is a fast, agile, focused-mission platform, yet capable of open-ocean operation. It is designed to defeat asymmetric 'anti-access' threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface craft.""<br /> <br />The price of an LCS has been put at around $350 million, plus weapons systems."
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