Both of the ships that now call Mayport home will be part of Littoral Combat Ship Squadron Two, which will eventually consist of all the U.S. Navy’s Freedom-variant littoral ships. The Freedom ...

-(Allegedly) under-armed and unable to survive in hostile combat environments Accordingly, several of the LCS warships—including LCS-1 and LCS-2 no less ... the Littoral Combat Ship, consider ...

The Freedom and Independence variant of the Littoral Combat Ship is the U.S. Navy’s newest ... Bath Iron Works (LCS 2 and LCS 4) and Austal USA (for the subsequent even-numbered hulls).

The U.S. Navy’s proposal to buy Littoral Combat Ships from two teams instead ... congressional auditors said. “A second ship design provided under the dual-award strategy could provide the ...

The littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4 ... some comparative advantages – certainly the flight decks on the LCS-2 variant lend themselves to a lot of good helicopters operations and ...

Two months following its commissioning, the U.S. Navy’s newest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship reached its homeport ... for Mayport's LCS Squadron 2. As new ships are being prepared ...