USS Pierre — the last of the Navy’s troubled Independence class of littoral combat ships — has passed its sea trials and will be commissioned in San Diego this fall, the Navy says.

The 378-foot Freedom-class littoral combat ship will arrive in Bristol on Thursday, July 3, and leave on Monday, July 7.

Independence class Littoral Combat Ships are suffering hull cracking in multiple locations along the hull. But that is just the tip of the problem ...

The F-35 works less than one-third of the time. The Navy is retiring Littoral Combat Ships decades ahead of schedule because they can’t perform the missions the Navy needs.

The first Littoral Combat Ship outfitted with a mine countermeasures package has arrived for a rotational deployment to Bahrain, the Navy announced. USS Canberra (LCS-30) arrived May 22 to U.S ...

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 ...

Learn about the $2.65 billion contract the Navy awarded to 17 companies for maintenance and modernization services for Littoral Combat Ships.

USS Charleston (LCS-18) is on its way to support the Trump administration’s ongoing border mission, U.S. Fleet Forces announced on Wednesday. The Independence-class ship has a U.S. Coast Guard ...

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But littoral combat ships aren’t the only ships under threat. Any ship of war policing the sea confronts peril nowadays. The democratization of naval warfare marks a phase change.

The first six systems were fielded to the 3rd Marine Littoral Regiment in November, Nick Pierce, product manager for NMESIS at Marine Corps Systems Command, told Marine Corps Times ahead of the ...

Littoral Combat Ships are fast, have an embarked helicopter and other equipment that make them good at catching drug smugglers.