(LCS) as the US Navy's best option for a smaller vessel as the service seeks to fulfil a vision of a new surface combatant fleet.The USN is jettisoning cruisers in favour of more advanced destroyers and the LCS, which under current plans is to ultimately represent about one third of ...
US Navy sailors on the deck of USS Freedom (LCS 1), April 12, 2021. Credit: DVIDS. The US Navy continues to support itsFreedom-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) afterconsiderable technical problemsand the decommissioning of a large number of vessels planned this year. The US Department of ...
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The US Navy has awarded a contract toRolls-Royceto deliver power and propulsion systems for its two latest Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). Under the contract, the company will equip each LCS with two Rolls-Royce MT30 gas turbines powering four large Mk1 waterjets to reach speeds ...
It was this line of thinking that lead the US Navy to embark on the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program in the early 2000s. These ships would be more nimble than older warships, able to quickly dash through shallow coastal waters where adversaries couldn’t follow. Their primary armament wou...
Currently, the Zumwalt is on track to cost more than $3.5 billion. That’s a hefty sum, but, much to the relief of Navy officials, the ship’s construction is on time and on budget. Previous Navy programs, like the new fleet of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), haven’t been nearly as...
The Navy did not provide a timeline for when she is expected to be commissioned or go into service. The USS Marinette, also built by Fincantieri Marinette Marine, was launched in 2020 but still has not been comissioned. According to the US Naval Register of ships, the following 10 LCS...
Littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1). U.S. Navy photo by Tim D. Godbee The U.S. Navy is evaluating a scaled-down version of the Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) system for potential incorporation on future Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), Naval Sea Systems Command ann...
These LCSs would be retired far ahead of their planned end of life: The class is meant to operate for 25 years, but these ships are between less than 2 years old and less than 10 years old. The Navy wants to decommission one cruiser early, the Vicksburg, which the Navy said in J...
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Vance Hand) “Today, the LCS Mission Modules program delivers to the Fleet a modernized and integrated MCM mission package that removes Sailors from the minefield and allows for the future retirement of legacy MCM ships,” said Capt...