The US Navy commissioned the last of its 35 littoral combat ships, the USS Cleveland, earlier this month at a pier in its ...
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program was intended to usher in a new type of lightweight, affordable ship for the U.S. Navy that could operate in shallow waters and combat small-scale threats. We ...
As the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1) USS Freedom’s crewmembers wind down after their first Western Pacific deployment, the ship is continuing to battle misconceptions that it spends most of the time ...
The problems with the diesel and gas turbine engines should not have happened. Both types of LCS had their own problems as well as problems common to the overall LCS concept. The Navy surprised ...