The Navy has awarded various contracts relating to the Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship’s mine countermeasures mission package, all preceding an anticipated rollout of the package on the LCS ...

The U.S. Navy’s Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS ... While the repurpose of these ships is notable, both Freedom and Independence-class ships have earned a lackluster reputation ...

The USS Montgomery arrived in Singapore on July 6 as part of a rotational deployment to the Indo-Pacific region. The Independence-class USS Montgomery made a port call in the Philippines on June 29.

The procurement of the Littoral Combat Ship programme was planned to ... The LCS class consists of two variants, Freedom and Independence, designed and built by two separate industry teams.

The Navy may have capped its fleet of much-anticipated—and much-maligned—littoral combat ships at 28 for now, but their commanders haven’t stopped trying to squeeze every last ounce of ...

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 ...

The U.S. Navy rapidly added new C-UAS (Counter-Unmanned Aerial System) capabilities to the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships in the ... and the Independence-class LCS USS Savannah (LCS 28).

(Lockheed Martin) Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) has been outfitted with counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) capabilities, the US Navy (USN) confirmed on ...

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 ...