The oft-maligned Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS ... USS Gabrielle Giffords stopped a vessel in the Eastern Pacific that was carrying $106 million worth of suspected cocaine. In 2021, USS Wichita ...

USS Indianapolis , shown here completing acceptance trials, was recently outfitted with C-UAS capabilities. (Lockheed Martin) Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Indianapolis (LCS 17 ...

The USS Nantucket is one of the final Freedom-class variants of the LCS programme, which has been continuously scaled back ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A brand new Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is heading to San Diego after its christening in Mobile, Alabama. The future USS Pierre (LCS 38) was christened on Saturday ...

Methodology To determine America’s newest warships, 24/7 Wall St. reviewed the military data site World Directory of Modern Military Warships ’ directory of all active ships in the U.S. and ...

the USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), USS Wichita (LCS 13), USS Billings (LCS 15), USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) and USS St. Louis (LCS 19), which was commissioned in 2020. Funding was only provided for those ...

A measure drafted over the summer by the U.S. House of Representative Appropriations Committee specifically exempted four Mayport LCS — the USS Wichita, USS Billings, USS Indianapolis and USS St ...

The littoral combat ship Wichita ... LCS that haven’t received modifications, but ships are still able to operate, according to the Navy. Correction: this story initially misstated the age of ...

The Littoral Combat Ship USS St. Louis ... more versatile design, 13 of the ships have developed cracks in their hulls. Even though the Pentagon has determined that “LCS is not expected to ...

Kay Granger, R-Fort Worth, the ranking member of the committee and the ship’s sponsor, has led an effort to preserve the 10-year-old USS Fort Worth and entire Freedom class of the LCS.

A Navy spokesman confirmed that the five cruisers slated for the cut are: USS ... (LCS-3), USS Milwaukee (LCS-5), USS Detroit (LCS-7), USS Little Rock (LCS-9), USS Sioux City (LCS-11), USS Wichita ...