System integration is an important element for the construction of naval combat ships.
The tropedo boat is the smallest of the combat ships in action.
The boats comprise three combat ships, an amphibious ship and a replenishment vessel.
Two smaller combat ships, customized for shallower seas and shorelines, would be eliminated, as would eight fast cargo ferries.
According to a December study by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, India's navy has 66 combat ships in active service, including one carrier and 16 submarines, while Pakistan's active combat ships number 23, including 10 submarines.
Instead, lawmakers made strong pitches to buy more combat ships, B-2 bombers and C-17 transport planes.
He said that the first of four littoral combat ships to rotate through Singapore had recently arrived, and that he would visit the ship, the Freedom, on Sunday.
The renewed emphasis on the Pacific would involve six aircraft carriers, and a majority of the Navy's cruisers, destroyers, littoral combat ships and submarines.
Last year, Singapore agreed to an American request to allow four new littoral combat ships, a new category of fast warship, to use its facilities.
