A “Fast, Modular” Vision Meets Fatigue Reality The Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was sold as a quick, ag ...

Shipbuilder Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy on Friday, marking the end of a construction phase that’s lasted 15 years. The Alabama-based Austal ...

The U.S. Navy is retiring every active Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) it has… while simultaneously finishing s ...

The USS Kingsville, one of the last Independence-class littoral combat ships built for the Navy, was christened Saturday in Corpus Christi, Texas. Cmdr. Ludwig Mann III, Kingsville’s commanding ...

July 28, 2025: U.S. Navy is allowing the Marine Corps to have several trimaran Independence class Littoral Combat Ships/LCS ships as Littoral Explosive Ordnance Neutralization/LEON vessels. In plant ...

The U.S. Navy's soon-to-be newest vessel, dubbed the USS Pierre (LCS 38), will be commissioned with an official ceremony in ...

Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) were supposed to have enhanced the U.S. Navy’s ability to engage smaller targets with a range of mission-oriented weapons packages. Indeed, the ships were celebrated as a ...

Summary: The U.S. Navy recently acquired the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36), the 18th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship, despite ongoing criticisms of the LCS program. Named after Kingsville, ...

The USS Kingsville, one of the last Independence-class littoral combat ships built for the Navy, has successfully completed acceptance trials and will become homeported in San Diego later this year.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The United States ...

Textron Systems' Aerosonde UAS successfully completed its first operational flight from a U.S. Navy littoral combat ship (LCS). This follows a $19.5 million contract with the Navy to provide UAS ...