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  • US Navy reverses course, to seek 3rd Stealth Destroyer

    08/27/2008 7:08:09 PM PDT · by Jeff Head · 39 replies · 234+ views
    HamptoonRoads.com ^ | 19 August 2008 | JERRY HARKAVY
    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) _ The Navy has changed course and decided to push for construction of a third DDG-1000 destroyer that would be built at Bath Iron Works, Sen. Susan Collins said Monday. The Maine Republican said Navy Secretary Donald Winter informed her of the decision that comes one month after the Navy said it was scrapping the Zumwalt destroyer program once the first two are built. The Navy said at the time that it was opting instead to build more of the current-generation DDG-51, or Arleigh Burke, destroyers. Collins quoted Winter as saying that in addition to seeking...