The live fire test of a Harpoon missile ... 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 ...

The US Navy has commissioned into service the antepenultimate Freedom-class variant of the twin-design Littoral Combat Ship ... effectively as trial ships, intended to test the platforms and ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy's Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Nantucket ... which provides the United States with a long-range anti-surface offensive strike capability.

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 ...

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 USS Indianapolis is the first Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be modified to fire Hellfire missiles meant to take out enemy drones and missiles. By Nicholas Slayton Posted on Jan 18 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Congress Is Giving The Navy 3 More Littoral Combat Ships Than It Wants Or Needs Congress Is Giving The Navy 3 More Littoral Combat Ships Than It Wants Or Needs By Paul Szoldra / Sep 19 2018 ...

If something—anything—goes wrong during land-based or sea-based testing, subsequent investigations ... members of the Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship industrial base could walk away happy ...