Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced today that the
next Independence variant littoral combat ship will be named USS Oakland (LCS
24). The ship will be named to honor the
long-standing history its namesake city has had with the Navy. The future USS Oakland will be the third
naval ship to bear the name. The first,
commissioned in 1918, was largely used to transport cargo; the second,
commissioned in 1942 during the height of World War II, was only in service for
seven years, but was key during many antiaircraft missions in places such as
Pearl Harbor, Marshall Islands, Pagan, Guam, Iwo Jima, Rota, Peleliu and
Okinawa. After the war, Oakland
performed two duty patrols off the coast of China before being decommissioned.
A fast, agile surface combatant, the LCS provides the
required war fighting capabilities and operational flexibility to execute a
variety of missions in areas such as mine warfare, anti-submarine warfare and
surface warfare. The ship will be built
with modular design incorporating mission packages that can be changed out
quickly as combat needs change in a region. These mission packages are
supported by detachments that deploy both manned and unmanned vehicles, and
sensors, in support of mine, undersea, and surface warfare missions.
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