Should enemy helicopters, surveillance planes or armed drones be maneuvering to attack while circling above a U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship at seemingly unreachable ranges for the ship’s deck ...

Somewhere off Central America, a USS Freedom sailor fishes from the flight deck. The ship is rarely ... or do these littoral combat ship sailors prefer to spend all their time in a command ...

A helicopter from the Philippine navy prepares to land on the flight deck of the littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) during an exercise for Maritime Training Activity (MTA) Sama Sama 2017 in ...

Sailors simulate the navigation of a littoral combat ship, inside the Integrated Tactical ... to ships and serving as a junior officer of the deck. USNI News photo. In one of the virtual reality ...

The two classes of littoral combat ships, as envisioned 20 years ago ... using Longbow Hellfire missiles, several deck-mounted machine guns, drones, and a software package to help plan missions.

This move is designed to shift away from the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) originally envisioned ... Tier 2 also describes the need for deck gun in the form of the Mk 110 57mm ad surface-to-surface ...

and its flight deck is 50% larger than that of traditional surface combatants, according to the ship's commissioning committee. A versatile fighter Littoral combat ships are designed to support ...

By extension, all of these systems could cue deck-mounted small arms for the ... The Navy is also now advancing plans to arm the Littoral Combat Ship with an emerging ship defense soft-kill ...

The U.S. Navy welcomed another littoral combat ship into its ranks. The USS Nantucket, a Freedom-class littoral combat ship, was commissioned Saturday, Nov. 16 at the Charlestown Navy Ship Yard in ...

could give these highly enhanced Littoral Combat Ships a limited medium-range land-attack role without wasting additional deck-space with bolt-on box launchers. The Navy has a real opportunity ...

Littoral Combat Ship – Why Did it Fail ... As detailed by Naval Technology, “The ships are configured with a helicopter deck and hangar. The deck can launch and recover the MH-60R/S ...