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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Navy may have capped its fleet of much-anticipated—and much-maligned—littoral combat ships at 28 for now, but their commanders haven’t stopped trying to squeeze every last ounce of capability out ...

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 ...

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 ...

LCS2 Independence, the high-speed trimaran combatant ship being constructed by shipbuilder Austal USA in Mobile, Alabama, as part of the General Dynamics Littoral Combat Ship Team, successfully ...