{"id":10770,"date":"2023-05-12T19:11:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=10770"},"modified":"2023-05-16T06:50:59","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T06:50:59","slug":"future-uss-augusta-lcs-34-delivered-to-the-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=10770","title":{"rendered":"Future USS Augusta (LCS 34) Delivered to the Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cThe delivery of the future USS Augusta marks a noteworthy milestone in the life of this ship and forges a great connection to the citizens of Maine, a state with a long history of shipbuilding,\u201d said LCS program manager, Capt. Andy Gold.\u00a0 \u201cI look forward to seeing the future USS Augusta and her sailors bring critical capability to the fleet.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In March, Augusta completed acceptance trials, the last significant milestone before a vessel is delivered to the Navy. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned in the fall of 2023. After commissioning, the ship will be homeported in San Diego, California.<\/p>\n<p>Augusta is the second LCS delivered in Fiscal Year 2023, following the Freedom-variant USS Marinette (LCS 25) in February. Two additional Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ships are currently being constructed at Austal USA, including the recently launched Kingsville (LCS 36) and Pierre (LCS 38). \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ex-USS Augusta (SSN 710), the first ship named after the capital of Maine, was a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine in active service for 24 years and was decommissioned on February 11, 2009.<\/p>\n<p>The Littoral Combat Ship is a fast, agile, mission-focused platform designed to operate in near-shore environments, while capable of open-ocean tasking and winning against 21st-century coastal threats such as mines and swarming small craft. They are capable of supporting forward presence, maritime security, sea control, and deterrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe delivery of the future USS Augusta marks a noteworthy milestone in the life of this ship and forges a great connection to the citizens of Maine, a state with a long history of shipbuilding,\u201d said LCS program manager, Capt. Andy Gold.\u00a0 \u201cI look forward to seeing the future USS Augusta and her sailors bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10772,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10773,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10770\/revisions\/10773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}