THE PENTAGON — While no program is guaranteed protection during these days of fiscal austerity, the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) acquisition plans are as safe as any other from substantial ...
WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Navy moves to cancel its anti-submarine warfare mission package for littoral combat ships, it has triggered another cost breach for the LCS mission modules program. The Navy ...
The US Navy commissioned the last of its 35 littoral combat ships, the USS Cleveland, earlier this month at a pier in its ...
As the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1) USS Freedom works its way through deployment exercises in the Asia-Pacific, a recent U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) report underscores the ...
Both LCS designs were supposed to be for ships displacing 2,500 tons, with a full load draft of under 3.3 meters (ten feet), permitting access to very shallow "green" and even "brown" coastal and ...
The U.S. Navy once envisioned having a fleet of littoral combat ships; small, speedy warships capable of performing various duties in shallow, coastal waters. Since around 2005, the LCS shipbuilding ...
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Final Freedom-class LCS to be commissioned in Cleveland
The USS Cleveland will be the final Littoral Combat Ship to enter service—ending a long, and not entirely positive, saga for the warships.
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