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An Austal-built Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) and crew are stranded in Singapore because of a change in training standards propelled by a series of recent engineering breakdowns throughout the LCS fleet. The USS Coronado, built in Mobile nearly five years ago, deployed to the Pacific Rim in June last year to relieve the LCS Fort Worth. The Coronado and its crew were supposed to arrive back in the home port of San Diego by Thanksgiving but could now end up being abroad for an indefinite period as they wait for a relief crew to be trained to the new Naval...

The US Navy is ready for trouble, that I can tell you. Vessels in order of appearance: USS Coronado USS Nitze (At night) USS Detriot RIM 166 USS Arleigh USS Eisenhower Russia Launches Against IS 480 USS Detroit MDA FTM- 20 Missile Sea Hawk Helicopter Iskander and SMERCH Launch

The US Navy's second Independence-class littoral combat ship (LCS) Coronado (LCS 4) is set to test launch Kongsberg's naval strike missile (NSM) off Point Mugu, Southern California, US, in September. Marking the first firing of a surface-to-surface missile from an LCS, the upcoming trial follows the successful launch of the NSM from the Norwegian frigate Fridtjof Nansen during RIMPAC exercises. NAVSEA spokesperson lieutenant Kurt Larson was quoted by the NavyTimes as saying: "The planned September live-firing demonstration aboard USS Coronado (LCS 4) of the naval strike missile under the foreign comparative testing programme will test the ship's feasibility to execute...

Shimoda, Japan (May 15, 2004) - Commander U.S. Seventh Fleet, Vice Adm. Robert F. Willard, accepts a wreath from a Japanese Boy Scout before placing it at the memorial at Shimoda Park, Japan, during the 65th Shimoda Black Ship Festival. The festival promotes the theme of peaceful relations between the Japanese and American people, and commemorates the 1854 landing of Commodore Matthew Perry and the signing of the Japanese-American treaty of trade and amity at Shimoda. This year's festival commemorates the 150th anniversary of that landing. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Alan Warner (RELEASED)SHIMODA, Japan (NNS) --...