The National Interest

Littoral Combat Ship: The U.S. Navy’s Biggest Mistake Ever?

Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) were supposed to have enhanced the U.S. Navy’s ability to engage smaller targets with a range of mission-oriented weapons packages. Indeed, the ships were celebrated as a ...
The Florida Times-Union

Navy awaits decision in Congress on whether to decommission 2 Mayport LCS

Less than five years after the USS Little Rock and USS Detroit sailed into Naval Station Mayport as freshly commissioned warships, the littoral combat ships have been scheduled for decommissioning.
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The US Navy’s Final Independence-Class Littoral Combat Ship Just Set Sail

The Independence-class LCS has been re-adapted for use as a minesweeper, although there are concerns that its aluminum hull might not be ideally suited for that purpose. USS Pierre (LCS-38) departed ...
Aviation Week

The Littoral Combat Ship: U.S. Navy Operational Advisory Group (OAG) Issue Priority List

Click here to view the pdf The Littoral Combat Ship: U.S. Navy Operational Advisory Group (OAG) Issue Priority List The Littoral Combat Ship: U.S. Navy Operational Advisory Group (OAG) Issue Priority ...
StrategyPage

Surface Forces: LCS Program Terminated

September 28, 2023: It came as no surprise when the U.S. Navy recently made it official that its ambitious but poorly implemented "Littoral Combat Ship" (LCS) program will be eliminated. This comes ...
The National Interest

5 Reasons the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships Were a Disaster

In July 2021, the United States Navy decommissioned the USS Independence (LCS-2) with little fanfare in a pier-side ceremony in San Diego. The namesake of the U.S. Navy’s Independence-class of ...
WKRG

Navy decommissioning first LCS built in Mobile

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The US Navy is saying goodbye to some of the first warships built in Mobile by Austal. This week the Navy held a decommissioning ceremony for LCS-2, the USS Independence. The ...
StrategyPage

Winning: LCS Died From A Bad Habit

January 8, 2022: The U.S. Navy has not made it official yet, but its ambitious but poorly implemented "Littoral Combat Ship" (LCS) program is rapidly fading away after more than a decade of effort to ...
Motor Trend

USS Independence LCS-2 - Military Power

The USS Independence (LCS 2) is one of two ships competing to win the U.S. Navy's contract for 55 multi-role, coast-patrolling littoral combat ships. The other competitor is Lockheed Martin's USS ...
Business Wire

Alion Awarded $4.6M Navy Contract to Develop PC-based Training System for Littoral Combat Ship-2

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Alion Science and Technology, an employee-owned technology solutions company, was awarded a three-year, $4.6 million task order from the Naval Air Warfare Center Training ...
USNI

SWO Boss Wants 6 Littoral Combat Ships in Western Pacific

Electronics Technician 3rd Class Jerry Brown, from Middletown, Ohio, participates in morning colors on the foc’sle aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS-18) during a ...