The Littoral Combat Ship was meant to be the Navy's big breakthrough, but became one of the most controversial chapters in ...

The delivery of the final Independence-class vessel closes a significant and controversial chapter in US naval shipbuilding history.

The U.S. Navy is well underway in scrapping its fleet of littoral combat ships. The latest to hit the chopping block is the USS Milwaukee (LCS-5), which was decommissioned on Friday, Sept. 8 at ...

Herzinger said he is concerned that by decommissioning the Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships, the U.S. Navy would fall further behind China, which already has the largest navy in the world and ...

From its inception, the Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS, has been one of the Navy’s most controversial procurement programs. Questions have been continuously raised about its costs, survivability ...

The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship Isn’t A Fighter. Maybe It Can Work As A Transport ... Install some extra berthing and voila—you’ve got a 21st-century version of a World War II high ...

The final Independence-class LCS will now be retooled for mine warfare, and the ships may finally serve a helpful purpose, ...

This is probably the beginning of the end of the Littoral Combat Ship program. The U.S. Navy is preparing to build a new guided missile frigate, FFG(X), and the shipbuilding budget for 2021 is 20 ...

House appropriators ripped a proposal to decommission four littoral combat ships contained in President Joe Biden’s Pentagon budget request for next year as “a misuse of taxpayer funds.” ...

A U.S. Navy littoral combat ship has deployed to the Middle East for the first time and is now sailing in the waters of the Red Sea. The USS Sioux City and its 75 crew members arrived in the ...

The littoral combat ship Montgomery launched three AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles at a land-based target this month — becoming the first LCS to do so.. While cruising in the Pacific Ocean ...