Key Points and Summary – U.S. Navy shipbuilding presents a complex picture of innovation mixed with setbacks. Programs like ...

The Independence-class LCS has been re-adapted for use as a minesweeper, although there are concerns that its aluminum hull ...

The Freedom-class LCS isn't a large warship like the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, designed to stay near the coast while on deployment.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the U.S. Navy still officially counts the Griffin missile as part of the Littoral Combat Ship’s (LCS) surface warfare (SUW) module package, the service is now testing the system aboard other ...

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 ...

Ohio's influence can be found in every Navy era — from the battle that secured Lake Erie to the Cleveland-built engines that ...

Several U.S. naval ships are capable of reaching record-breaking speeds. As of this writing, the fastest U.S. Navy ship still in service is the Freedom-class littoral combat ship (LCS). Officially, it ...