It can be reconfigured for each mission by adding or removing modules such as weapon systems, sensors, helicopters and drones.

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However, it also delivers less warfighting capability, because one of its key innovations is to locate mission systems on a series of interchangeable modules that can be quickly installed or removed depending on what role the warship is expected to execute.

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In order to determine the location of the leak, the crew had been sealing off small peripheral modules of the space station while Mission Control looked for accelerated pressure drops inside the sealed-off sections.

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