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meet the loral combat chips us Navy's 500 million small surface [Music] combatants more than 17 years ago the US Navy christened the first of a new class of Warship designed to operate in Nearshore environments the so called the Toral combat ships or LCS would be fast and agile capable of countering 21st century Coastal threats such as missile firing boats small submarines and mines the LCS is a class of small surface combatants equipped with capability specifically designed to address Global challenges in loral regions the LCS is intended to facilitate Joint Force access in these lorals operating either independently or within High threat environments as part of a networked back Battle Force that includes larger multi-mission surface combatants the LCS has been a controversial program from its Inception experiencing delays and cost overruns not to mention severe criticism from elements of the National Security Community perhaps no ship in recent memory has been subject to more critici