We went on board the Kansas City LCS 22, an Independence-Class Littoral combat ship, in San Diego. The littoral combat ship is designed to move "out of the brown, into the blue" – close to the ...

"You prepared this ship to take her place in the fleet during challenging times,” Jodi Greene, a former Navy deputy undersecretary who was the ship’s sponsor, told the crew during a ceremony in the ...

Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32) launched the Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System (LUCAS ...

For the U.S. Navy, boats perform missions from mundane maintenance chores such as hull scraping and cleaning overboard discharges to clandestine special forces insertion and extraction. Some boats are ...

KUALA LUMPUR – Two Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships – USS Tulsa (LCS-16) and USS Charleston (LCS-18) – are currently on… ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Naval history is replete with examples of platforms being repurposed for new missions, oftentimes to good effect. The same could be done with the LCS. Is it time to ...

Known as LCS 29, the warship is designed for operations in both shallow waters and open seas. The Navy has retired several Freedom-class ships over maintenance costs and mission capability. The US ...

Time to start calling the Independence Class a surveillance frigate. In all the debate over the Navy’s battered and largely derided Littoral Combat Ship concept, the Independence Class LCS has been ...

The U.S. Navy has issued a Lockheed Martin-led industry team a contract modification for one fully funded 2015 Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) valued at $362 million, along with $79 million in advanced ...

The USS Charleston, an Independence-variant littoral combat ship, arrived on Guam this month after 25 days on patrol, including 19 consecutive days in the South China Sea, the U.S. 7th Fleet said ...

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 ...

The USS Montgomery, one of the U.S. Navy’s troubled Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) successfully fired sea-based missiles at a target on land in a test that validated the ship’s surface-to-surface mission ...