Defense One27d
Disparaged, discontinued...and indispensable? Littoral combat ships take on real-world ops
LCSs deployed to the Persian Gulf and the waters off of South America in the past year, the commodore of Littoral Combat Ship Squadron 2 told an audience at the Surface Navy Association’s annual ...
National Review1y
An Embarrassing Chapter in American Seapower Acquisition Nears Its End
Like a 30-year-old European project car that ... the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) group — is composed of two distinct designs: the LCS-1 Freedom class, a steel monohull, and the LCS-2 Independence ...
The Navy is upgrading littoral combat ships to fight drones
The USS Indianapolis is the first Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be modified to fire Hellfire missiles meant to take ...
Task & Purpose5y
The Navy wants to ditch 4 of its ‘little crappy ships’ more than a decade early
In the latest sign that the Navy seems to have finally given up on the issue-plagued 'little crappy ships,' the service reportedly plans on decommissioning its first four littoral combat ship in ...