Then, in July 2016, the USS Freedom, one of the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships (LCS), sailed off to participate in the world’s largest naval exercise, RIMPAC. The LCS class was promised as a naval ...

The USS Augusta, a nearly new Independence-class littoral combat ship, will undergo a $33.5 million overhaul at a San Diego ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The littoral combat ship USS Canberra (LCS 30) sails in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility on May 26, 2025. The USS ...

Can a ship class written off as a procurement mistake become useful precisely because naval warfare keeps rewarding narrow, specialized tools? The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship, long criticized for ...

Santa Barbara’s namesake warship just made history by launching a one-way attack drone at sea in the Middle East. The USS Santa Barbara, an Independence-class littoral combat ship, launched the drone ...

A Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System one-way attack drone, like those shown here on a tarmac at a US Central Command base, was launched from a littoral combat ship. (US Department of Defense) ...