The sea service continues to test the possibilities of placing mobile missile cells aboard littoral combat ships.
Littoral combat ships are expected to serve 25 years. But the Little Rock and the Detroit were less than a decade old.
Decommissioning these ships early amounts to a loss of almost $7 billion based on analysis by Defense News.
The ship, which was designed to serve for 25 years, is one of the Freedom-class variants that the Navy is mothballing early.
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