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40 of those ships are the failed littoral ship concept. "In response to the mounting storm of criticism, on Dec. 16, 2015, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced that the original buy of 55 LCSs, already cut to 52, would be cut to 32 ships plus an additional eight “frigate” versions of the original LCS. The Navy prefers to go even further by cutting the LCS buy to 28 ships plus 12 “frigate” LCSs - and is requesting approval of a 12 ship block buy to lock in the program’s production commitment with a concomitant large increase in concurrency." See post: The U.S. Navy’s Redesigned Future Ship Still Won’t Fight http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3505267/posts