The U.S. Navy is retiring every active Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) it has… while simultaneously finishing six brand-new ships of the same class. On the surface, that sounds like déjà vu ...

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, ...

Known as LCS 29, the warship is designed for operations in both shallow waters and open seas. The Navy has retired several Freedom-class ships over maintenance costs and mission capability. The US ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, — After losing four littoral combat ships last year, Mayport’s fleet of Naval warships is about to grow by two vessels. The USS Nantucket completed its two-month-long journey from ...

Once criticized, the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) proves its value by foiling drug runs in Caribbean missions, signaling a potential new future for the troubled fleet. Summary: While ...

February 26, 2025: Last year the U.S. Navy decided to reverse its plan to quickly discard its remaining LCS Littoral Combat Ships and instead upgrade many of them. The only combat an LCS has seen was ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy’s Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Nantucket (LCS-27) was commissioned in Boston, Massachusetts. As the fourteenth ship in its class, Nantucket is ...

The multihull Independence class was a 3,100-ton ship with a max speed of 87 kilometers an hour and max endurance of 21 days. It could travel up to 8,000 kilometers at 37 kilometers an hour before ...