11.   The Navy could also get the arsenal ship more quickly.

12.   The US Navy launched a program Friday to design an arsenal ship with five times the missile firepower of a destroyer but at little more than half the cost.

13.   The arsenal ship would essentially be a floating platform capable of pouring huge volumes of precision missile fire on targets ashore, at sea or in the air.

14.   The arsenal ship represents the latest effort by the Navy to concentrate greater firepower on fewer numbers of ships to reduce costs in a time of budget cutbacks.