USS Wichita gets another costly repair just a year after the last

A warship the U.S. Navy tried to scrap just a few years into its life is heading back into the shipyard, and taxpayers are footing another multimillion-dollar bill to keep it running. BAE Systems’ Jacksonville Ship Repair facility won a $49 million contract to maintain, modernize, and repair U

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A warship the U.S. Navy tried to scrap just a few years into its life is heading back into the shipyard, and taxpayers are footing another multimillion-dollar bill to keep it running. BAE Systems’ Jacksonville Ship Repair facility won a $49 million contract to maintain, modernize, and repair USS Wichita (LCS 13), a Freedom-class littoral […]

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