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The future USS Billings is the Navy’s newest Freedom-class littoral combat ship and is expected to join the fleet some time next year.

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OK, OK, it may be a stretch to call the littoral combat ship a "warship" but the Navy just released some footage of one getting the full shock trial treatment from 5-tons of boom.

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A small earthquake off the Florida coast Saturday was reclassified as an experimental explosion by the U.S. Geological Survey after the Navy announced it was just 10,000 pounds of explosives shock testing.

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The USS Little Rock, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship took the ride of her young life when she was dropped into the into the Menominee River in Marinette, Wisconsin this last weekend.

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“Thank you to all who built this ship,” Giffords said during the ceremony Saturday. “She's stealthy; she will defend freedom around the world.”

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The littoral combat ship was literally dropped into the water, made massive waves and rocked back and forth like a behemoth of a bathtub toy in a launch ceremony on Saturday.

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