USS Coronado Completes Part of Contract Trials, Will Deploy Overseas in 2015

A US Navy (USN) Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has completed the Independence class' first 'final contract trials', officials announced on 6 June.

USS Coronado (LCS 4), the second aluminium trimaran LCS variant built by Austal USA, passed the four-day trial, which included at-sea demonstrations of the vessel's main propulsion plant, combat systems, 57 mm gun, and boat handling systems.

Overseen by the navy's Board of Inspection and Survey, the trial was part of a series of post-delivery test and trial events that exercised the ship's manoeuverability and its ability to conduct air and surface detect-to-engage missions, launch and recover an 11 m rigid hull inflatable boat, and fire its weapons.

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