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The U.S. Navy’s Big Littoral Combat Ship Mistake Still Stings

As the final Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is delivered, a review of the program’s mixed legacy shows it was a gamble that ...
Littoral Combat Ship: Could the U.S. Navy’s Crappy Little Ships Be Headed to Greece? – The United States Navy has seemed lost in what to do with its Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), and even as new ...
The USS Nantucket was commissioned at a ceremony in Boston, Mass., on Saturday morning, three years after it was first launched and five years after construction began. The USS Nantucket is a littoral ...
The Defense Department is expected to release its formal budget request March 4, but Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey have previewed what ...
The Independence-class LCS has been re-adapted for use as a minesweeper, although there are concerns that its aluminum hull ...
The Independence-variant littoral combat ship Savannah conducts routine underway operations in the South China Sea, Dec. 6, 2024. (Naval Air Crewman Second Class John Rabbat/Navy) Shipbuilder Austal ...
The oft-maligned Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS, may have found its true calling: chasing down smugglers. USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, a Freedom-variant LCS, recently stopped two suspected drug smuggling ...