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The US Navy’s Final Independence-Class Littoral Combat Ship Just Set Sail
The Independence-class LCS has been re-adapted for use as a minesweeper, although there are concerns that its aluminum hull ...
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The U.S. Navy’s Greatest Weakness Won’t Be Easy to Fix
Key Points and Summary – U.S. Navy shipbuilding presents a complex picture of innovation mixed with setbacks. Programs like ...
The Freedom-class LCS isn't a large warship like the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, designed to stay near the coast ...
USS Pierre — the last of the Navy’s troubled Independence class of littoral combat ships — has passed its sea trials and will be commissioned in San Diego this fall, the Navy says. The Pierre was ...
Rising Tides is an opinion column about Mobile. Today’s guest columnist is Larry Ryder. Twenty years ago, Austal USA started construction of its first Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, the USS ...
The future USS Pierre, the last of 19 Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships built by Austal USA, makes its final departure ...
July 28, 2025: U.S. Navy is allowing the Marine Corps to have several trimaran Independence class Littoral Combat Ships/LCS ships as Littoral Explosive Ordnance Neutralization/LEON vessels. In plant ...
The Navy has been accused of stealing design elements for its Littoral Combat Ship and refusing to play the inventor who came up with them. In this case, the accusation may well have weight. Share on ...
The Navy relieved the commanding officer of a littoral combat ship deployed to the Middle East, 5th Fleet officials announced. Cmdr. Adam Ochs was relieved as the commanding officer of USS Santa ...
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