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LCS 27: US Navy inducts fast, agile, shallow-draft, networked surface ship
The Navy’s littoral combat ship program is part of the Program Executive ... the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in ...
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‘A real one-two-punch for the Navy:’ First of two new Freedom-Class LCS Ships arrives in Mayport
After losing four littoral combat ships last year ... USS Nantucket completed its two-month-long journey from Marinette, Wisconsin, with several additional stops along the way, and arrived ...
Do Navy Ships Have Wi-Fi On Board? Security Concerns, Explained
In today's technology-soaked world, it seems unfathomable that sailors aboard advance Navy ships might not have access to ...
The Land13d
USS Cleveland’s return to its namesake city: A historic community initiative and Navy legacy
Clevelanders, get ready for a first-of-its-kind milestone: the commissioning of the USS Cleveland, a Littoral Combat Ship ...
The Navy is upgrading littoral combat ships to fight drones
The USS Indianapolis is the first Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be modified to fire Hellfire missiles meant to take ...
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The Navy wants to ditch 4 of its ‘little crappy ships’ more than a decade early
In the latest sign that the Navy seems to have finally given up on the issue-plagued 'little crappy ships,' the service reportedly plans on decommissioning its first four littoral combat ship in ...
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An Embarrassing Chapter in American Seapower Acquisition Nears Its End
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 ...
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USS Beloit makes it home to Mayport
Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Beloit (LCS 29) makes it to her homeport in Mayport, Fla., December 19.
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Disparaged, discontinued...and indispensable? Littoral combat ships take on real-world ops
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 ...
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AGM-114 Hellfire Missiles Fielded Onboard U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ships for C-UAS Defense
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 ...