Lodamun

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With their eyes set on ensuring the Lodamese Navy maintains a capability edge over potential adversaries throughout the world’s more contentious bodies of water including the Migrants Pass as well as aiding the Lodamese Coast Guard in its patrols of Western and Eastern Seleya, the Department of Defence, through the Defence Procurement Administration has approved two designs for a littoral warfare platform which could bring serious firepower in theatre supposedly at almost half the tonnage. Coined the Advanced Littoral Combat Program (ALCP), had been initially envisioned by the AFPA (Armed Forces Projects Agency), as a concept for future designs for the Lodamese Coast Guard, providing the force with enhanced firepower capabilities, especially in light of the ever-changing circumstances present in the Artanian Sea, the Anantonese Ocean, the South Ocean and the Schismatic Sea. Although it had piqued the interest of the Department of the Coast Guard, it was ultimately abandoned after it became clear that the force would pivot towards expanding procurement of systems including the Domestic Security Cutter and the Cobia-class offshore patrol cutter. Via a joint collaboration with the AFPA and the Cowgill-Masterson Maritime Engineering (CMME), the program was retooled to meet specifications for a new concept requested by the Department of Defence.

 As the Lodamese Navy continues to find itself deeply involved in naval action in some of the world’s more ‘dangerous’ waters, there remains a need for smaller vessels which supposedly punch well above their weight as the deployment of its much larger destroyers, frigates and cruisers to areas with shallow waters ultimately place them at an inherent disadvantage with respect to manoeuvrability. “When we send these ships to these areas we are taking a major risk as we are forcing them into potential engagements where they are forced to essentially fight with their hands tied behind their back,” Secretary of the Navy, Nathan Turner explained. Taking lessons from the Lodamese Army and Commonwealth Guard on the development and deployment of more modular, mission-specific systems, the Lodamese Navy intends for these vessels, which have been classed the Heering and the Amberjack class, to be able to having systems altered to meet the specific environment in which they might ultimately operate. Whether it would be purely anti-submarine, surface warfare etc. The Department of the Navy has noted that it has approved the construction of 14 vessels in total, 6 of the Heering class and 8 of the Amberjack class, with CMME being the preferred bidder.