Inside the Navy’s Decision The U.S. Navy’s decision to retire its first four Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) including the s ...
What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy’s Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Nantucket (LCS-27) was commissioned in Boston, Massachusetts. As the fourteenth ship in its class, Nantucket is ...
Summary: The U.S. Navy recently acquired the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36), the 18th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship, despite ongoing criticisms of the LCS program. Named after Kingsville, ...
The Constellation-class frigate, intended as a low-risk, FREMM-based escort to replace LCS gaps and relieve destroyers, is now 36 months late and 13% heavier. -U.S. system insertions, added ...
The USS Indianapolis is the first Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be modified to fire Hellfire missiles meant to take out enemy drones and missiles. By Nicholas Slayton Published Jan 18, 2025 ...
As the sun rose Friday morning in Mobile, the last of 19 Littoral Combat Ships built by Austal USA stood ready for its final departure. The moment could be described as the end of an era for the city.
Known as LCS 29, the warship is designed for operations in both shallow waters and open seas. The Navy has retired several Freedom-class ships over maintenance costs and mission capability. The US ...
The Littoral Combat Ship was supposed to be the Navy's next big breakthrough — a lightweight, fast, and flexible vessel designed to operate close to shorelines, where larger warships struggled. But ...
The Navy may have capped its fleet of much-anticipated—and much-maligned—littoral combat ships at 28 for now, but their commanders haven’t stopped trying to squeeze every last ounce of capability out ...
Last week on Time’s Battleland blog there was a piece by Mr. John Sayen entitled The Navy’s New Class of Warships: Big Bucks, Little Bang. Obviously, Mr. Sayen is not a fan of the Littoral Combat Ship ...
Cmdr. Adam Ochs was relieved of command of the USS Santa Barbara, a littoral combat ship deployed to the Navy's 5th Fleet ...