The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, initially envisioned as a game-changer for modern naval warfare, has become a ...

The oft-maligned Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS, may have found its true calling: chasing down smugglers. USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, a Freedom-variant LCS, recently stopped two suspected drug ...

The live fire test of a Harpoon missile ... Two U.S. senators think that the US Navy is overstating the capabilities of the Littoral Combat Ship. However, no decision on what new missile system ...

The United States Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program has been repeatedly described as a costly misstep for the sea service. The two classes of small but fast warships, designed to operate ...

The Littoral Combat Ship was conceived following the Cold War to be the low-end component of a new “21st-century family of ships” for the United States Navy. Facing no peer adversaries ...

The Freedom-class littoral combat ship Minneapolis-Saint Paul departs ... LEDET teams to prevent illegal drugs from reaching the United States through maritime routes. Drug interdictions in ...

The company’s two shipyards in the United States ... ships and modules for nuclear-powered and nuclear-armed submarines. Austal has built all of the futuristic trimaran-hull littoral combat ...

MARINETTE (WLUK) -- A Green Bay local reenlisted into the United States Navy at a special ... took place aboard a pierside Navy Littoral Combat Ship at Fincantieri Marinette Marine.

USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, a Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship, made two drug busts within 72 hours, seizing more than $9.5 million of cocaine and roughly $2.8 million of marijuana.