Looks like the LSM concept may just happen after all…

🫧 Open on Bubbles The Damen LST 100 design, which was picked last December to be the Navy LSM– coming to a shipyard near you TOTE Services in Jacksonville yesterday picked up a $2.6 billion contract from Naval Sea Systems Command’s PAE Maritime to serve as Vessel Construction Manager (VCM) for the Medium Landing Ship (LSM) program. You know, the mini-LSTs that the Navy is building for the Marines to shuttle NMESIS missile batteries and light armor around the Western Pacific in a sea-denial-from-the-shore ki