Under Secretary of the US Navy (USN) Robert Work has backed the Littoral Combat Ship (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 ...
shipbuilder Austal USA has launched the future USS Pierre (LCS 38), the last ship of the U.S. Navy’s Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program. Following launch, Austal USA’s test and activation team will spend the next several months preparing her for sea trials later ...
The littoral combat ship (LCS) is a new family of surface ships for the US Navy. The LCS is a fast, highly manoeuvrable, networked surface combat ship, which is a specialised variant of the family of US future surface combat ships known as DD(X). LCS is designed to meet the urgent ...
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 Defense (DoD) awardedRolls-Royce a $66.6m contracton 16 May to provide global engineering ...
Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Thesesmaller, lighter surface combatantswere designed by the Navy for missions in the littorals, or near the shore. The class was built in two distinct variants: the monohull Freedom class, built by Lockheed Martin, and the trimaran Independence class, built by a ...
The transport dock ship Green Bay, the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Walter S. Diehl and the amphibious dock landing ship Ashland conduct a replenishment-at-sea with MH-60S Seahawk helicopters on Jan. 30, 2019, in the Philippine Sea. (MC1 Daniel Barker/U.S. Nav...
US Navy's tenth LCS is officially named DesignMilitary strategyMilitary personnelAccording to the USN, Gabrielle Giffords is the 16th USN ship to be named for a woman, and the 13th since 1850 to be named for a living person.Jane's Defence WeeklyGrace, Jean...
BEIJING (AP) — The Chinese military said that an American naval ship had “illegally intruded” on Monday into waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, the site of a hot territorial dispute between China and the Philippines in the South China Sea.
The aft flight deck of a modular LCS 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 coul...
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