The USS Indianapolis is the first Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be modified to fire Hellfire missiles meant to take ...

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 ...

But while nobody wants to kill an established program of record, there are enough options on the table right now that even the most committed members of the Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship ...

Reinventing the Littoral Combat Ship: USS Nantucket's New Mission The U.S. Navy’s Freedom -variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Nantucket (LCS-27) was commissioned this weekend in Boston ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is widely regarded as a mistake in hindsight due to ...

This category — the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) group — is composed of two distinct designs: the LCS-1 Freedom class, a steel monohull, and the LCS-2 Independence class, an aluminum trimaran ...

Congress Is Giving The Navy 3 More Littoral Combat Ships Than It Wants Or Needs Congress Is Giving The Navy 3 More Littoral Combat Ships Than It Wants Or Needs By Paul Szoldra / Sep 19 2018 ...

The U.S. Navy rapidly added new C-UAS (Counter-Unmanned Aerial System) capabilities to the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships in the form of Longbow Hellfire missiles. The U.S. Navy has ...