The Navy’s ‘little crappy ships’ have a monster new problem The Navy’s ‘little crappy ships’ have a monster new problem By Jared Keller / Dec 17 2020 ...

The problem: persistent maintenance issues, an unclear objective, and cost overruns. What Is/Was the Littoral Combat Ship or ...

The Navy may have capped its fleet of much-anticipated—and much-maligned—littoral combat ships at 28 for now ... Then came the readiness problems. By mid-2016, four of the service’s six ...

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

Despite Happy Talk, The Fix Is Not In: Despite the gritty, “we are going to fix those problems” optimism ... members of the Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship industrial base could walk ...

The Navy’s troubled Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships are slated for a class-wide repair following the successful validation on one ship of the class. The Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships have ...

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 ...

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 ...