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

A U.S. Navy warship is getting another option to counter unmanned aircraft systems, and it didn’t cost taxpayers tens of ...

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In the latest sign that the Navy ... littoral combat ships Freedom, Independence, Fort Worth and Coronado, all of which have “between 12 and 17 years of planned hull life remaining,” Defense ...

USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) has been outfitted with counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) capabilities, the US Navy ...

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 ...

Two U.S. senators think that the US Navy is overstating the capabilities of the Littoral Combat Ship. However, no decision on what new missile system to purchase has been made yet, according to a ...

The U.S. Navy carried out a crash program last year to enable Freedom class littoral combat ships (LCS) armed with radar-guided AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles to fire those weapons against ...

The Littoral Combat Ship was conceived following the Cold War to be the low-end component of a new “21st-century family of ships” for the United States Navy. Facing no peer adversaries ...

If the United States wants to remain ... develop and field small, lethal littoral combatants that are more than a match for the Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship — and for a fraction of the cost ...

Much like constructing an investment portfolio, developing a balanced naval force involves spreading risk and resources across complementary assets. While large, heavily armed, and exquisitely ...