A single missile can cripple a billion-dollar warship. Australia must explore other forms of sea power to effectively meet ...

The US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS ... As a class of Small Surface Combatants, the LCS class is said to be a fast, agile platform designed for operations in near-shore environments, capable ...

U.S. Navy warships received their first ever over-the-air software updates in combat. In the Red Sea, these upgrades improved ...

The Freedom class is one of the most recent ships to join the U.S. Navy, having entered service in 2008. It is a coastal combat ship, a fast ... is the other series of littoral combat ships ...

Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Beloit (LCS 29) makes it to her homeport in Mayport, Fla., December 19.

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 ...

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 ...

In the fast-paced world of modern warfare ... delays critical knowledge transfer — leaving operational units ill-prepared for rapidly evolving combat environments. The result is a significant lag ...

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 ...