June 26 (UPI) --Austal USA is receiving a not-to-exceed Congressional cost-cap contract for $584.2 million for the construction of an Independence-class littoral combat ship and associated services.

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 ...

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 ...

What You Need to Know: The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS ... USS Freedom (LCS-1) was the lead ship of the first class, built by Fincantieri Marine Group, laid down on June 2, 2005, launched on ...

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 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).

-(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 ...