What does SC stand for?

The Future Surface Combatant (FSC) programme will involve new vessels being built over the next 15 years and will also offer ships to order for export to other countries.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The US Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship, Freedom (LCS1), recently got underway for builder's sea trials for the first-in-class coastal surface combatant.

Instead, the congressmen took the opportunity to advocate for the use of nuclear propulsion in surface combatants as a way to reduce fuel costs.

The plan calls for a fleet of 11 carriers, 15 littoral combat ships and 113 surface combatants by 2011.

In addition, this modification provides services to support the development and integration of like systems at shore sites associated with the deployment of, or fleet support to, surface combatants and the development, testing and integration of mobile and airborne communication systems designed to interface with the command, control, communication, computers and intelligence architecture of surface combatants.

That dominance, said industry analysts, could mean that Northrop's just-acquired Litton shipbuilding unit would see a disproportionately higher share of future contracts to build so-called surface combatant ships.

5 billion company that offers advanced electronic, defense and information systems and is a primary builder of large surface combatant ships for the U.

Navy Ship Battle Forces surface combatant fleet, and over 45 percent of the entire U.