Panetta’s Pentagon Shift Favors Subs, Bombers, Tankers - Businessweek
 

27-01-12 03:02 AM

Panetta said the Navy intends to base some of them in Singapore and other patrol craft in Bahrain. Still, two vessels are being cut from plans for 2013 to 2017, which had called for buying during that period at least 15 of the 55 ships planned.

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