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 ...

Unfortunately, the Littoral Combat Ships have been plagued with technical problems. Citing the expensive refits that would be required to keep them operational, the Navy is now looking at retiring ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Navy has been rapidly decommissioning a variety of ships such as the failed littoral combat ship, but more troubling is the loss of needed amphibious ships and needlessly retiring the capable ...