The San Diego-based littoral combat ship USS Cincinnati made a port visit in Cambodia this month to support the U.S. military ...

The surface force will net a total of seven Littoral Combat Ships after the Navy shelved plans to decommission the hulls ...

Key Points and Summary - The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is presented as a deeply flawed naval experiment. The decision to build two competing designs, the Freedom and Independence classes, ...

Few modern American warships have drawn as much criticism as the Littoral Combat Ships. Conceived after 2001 as small, fast, shallow water vessels meant to counter threats near coastlines, they were ...

The Navy now is in possession of the final Freedom-class littoral combat ship after a milestone moment this week for a troubled collection of vessels once valued for their promise as stealthy ...

Littoral Combat Ship USS Pierre (LCS-38) is the 19th, and final, Independence-variant littoral combat ship constructed. Pierre is the third ship named in honor of South Dakota’s capital city, and the ...

Distinguished guests watch the crew aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Pierre in Panama City. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy) The Navy on Saturday commissioned the last of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cmdr. Adam Ochs was relieved of command of the USS Santa Barbara, a littoral combat ship deployed to the Navy's 5th Fleet area of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Pierre littoral combat ship sails into Panama City, Florida. The U.S. Navy commissioned the 19th and final ...