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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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 ... proved them wrong.” The ship also received a Combat Action Ribbon, the first for an LCS ...
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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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Littoral Combat Ship Might Be Making a 'Comeback'
Reinventing the Littoral Combat Ship: USS Nantucket's New Mission The U.S. Navy’s Freedom -variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Nantucket (LCS-27) was commissioned this weekend in Boston ...
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‘A real one-two-punch for the Navy:’ First of two new Freedom-Class LCS Ships arrives in Mayport
The Nantucket’s arrival brings Mayport’s total Littoral Combat Ship fleet to eight, with the future arrival of a second ship set to bring the total to nine. [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app ...
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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 ...
The National Interest17d
Littoral Combat Ship Firepower
The Navy is testing a new combat system for its Littoral Combat Ship to qualify it for military missions via a larger-than-normal number of upcoming live-fire exercises, which will prepare the ...
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Biden Must Move Fast And Kill The Freedom Class LCS
Halting vessel deliveries is a contract action that likely halts progress ... the most committed members of the Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship industrial base could walk away happy, ready ...
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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 ...
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USS St. Louis Supports Operation Southern Guard at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay
NAVAL STATION GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba   –  The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS St. Louis (LCS 19) is moored at U.S.
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Littoral Combat Ship
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 ...
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Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)
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 ...