US plans to rotate 4 combat ships operating out of Singapore by 2018

The announcement was made as the LCS USS Fort Worth returned to Singapore for maintenance and a crew swap, after operations including a deployment as part of multinational search-and-rescue efforts for AirAsia flight QZ8501. Singapore is the ship's primary logistics hub in South-east Asia, and the USS Fort Worth is currently the only LCS operating out of Singapore.

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