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 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 ...

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 ...

“Today, the USS Nantucket is tested and battle-ready,” the ship’s executive officer, Cmdr. Angela Eickelmann, told a crowd at its Nov. 16 commissioning. The littoral combat ship USS ...

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 ...

Naval Station Mayport’s fleet is gaining two littoral combat ships following the commissioning of some ... shifting budget priorities and the failure of a weapons system the ship was supposed to carry ...