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Final Independence-class combat ship delivered to Navy

Shipbuilder Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy on Friday, marking the end of a construction phase that’s lasted 15 years. The Alabama-based Austal ...
The National Interest

Littoral Combat Ships

Summary: The U.S. Navy recently acquired the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36), the 18th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship, despite ongoing criticisms of the LCS program. Named after Kingsville, ...
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The US Navy Is Repairing Freedom-Class Combat Ships At Sea Now (And Here's Why It Matters)

From the largest aircraft carrier to the Boomin Beaver, potentially the smallest ship in the U.S. Navy, the United States has a huge range of vessels under its command. One of the most interesting ...
USNI

Austal Delivers Final Independence-Class LCS to Navy

Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship to the Navy Friday, the shipbuilder announced. Future USS Pierre (LCS-38), the second U.S. ship to be named after South Dakota’s ...
Naval Technology on MSN

US Navy FF(X) vs Constellation frigate – a comparison

The decision by the US at the end of 2025 to cancel the Constellation-class frigate for a new FF(X) design caught many by ...
The National Interest

Littoral Combat Vessel

This much is clear: Nobody wants the Littoral Combat Ship, and yet here it is. The USS St. Louis was launched and christened on Saturday as the latest Freedom-class installment of its Littoral ...
Stars and Stripes

Navy deploys first LCS to replace wood-hulled minehunter in Bahrain

The littoral combat ship USS Canberra arrived at the U.S. naval base in Bahrain last week, the first of four new vessels expected to replace aging mine countermeasures ships in the Middle East, ...
Yahoo

Navy finally finds something the LCS is good at: Stopping drug smuggling

USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, a Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship, made two drug busts within 72 hours, seizing more than $9.5 million of cocaine and roughly $2.8 million of marijuana. The ...
Marine Link

Littoral Combat Ship Support Facility Opens

The Program Executive Officer, Littoral and Mine Warfare (PEO LMW), Naval Surface Warfare Center, Port Hueneme Division (NSWC PHD) and the Littoral Combat Ship Class Squadron (LCS CLASSRON) will ...

A Major US Navy Frigate Program Was Canceled (But Here's What's Being Built Instead)

The U.S. Navy has canceled its original plans for the Constellation-class frigate program, limiting it to just the two ships already being constructed.
Time

Return Fire on the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship

Last week on Time’s Battleland blog there was a piece by Mr. John Sayen entitled The Navy’s New Class of Warships: Big Bucks, Little Bang. Obviously, Mr. Sayen is not a fan of the Littoral Combat Ship ...