The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program has been fraught with ... JACK GUEZ//Getty Images The French frigate Auvergne of the FREMM type, a variant of which has been proposed for the U.S. Navy ...

USS Charleston (LCS-18) is on its way to support the Trump administration’s ongoing border mission, U.S. Fleet Forces ...

The Littoral Combat Ship is a surface vessel built for near-shore operations and built to do a little bit of everything, kind of like a Swiss Army Knife, or an F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.

The U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship program was developed in the early 2000s to tackle threats in coastal or littoral environments. To that end, the U.S. Navy ultimately fielded two distinct ...

Two decades after Congress started pouring money into the Littoral Combat Ship program, it is finally “on trend to meet design requirements” established under then-Defense Secretary Donald ...

Malaysia’s LCS design is based on the French Gowind 2500 corvette. (Boustead Naval Shipyard) SINGAPORE — Malaysia is pumping more money into its troubled Littoral Combat Ship program ...

The U.S. Navy once envisioned having a fleet of littoral combat ships; small, speedy warships capable of performing various duties in shallow, coastal waters. Since around 2005, the LCS ...

The U.S. Navy is well underway in scrapping its fleet of littoral combat ships. The latest to hit the chopping block is the USS Milwaukee (LCS-5), which was decommissioned on Friday, Sept.

The Freedom and Independence variant of the Littoral Combat Ship is the U.S. Navy’s newest warship and is a fast, agile, focused-mission platform designed for operation in near-shore ...

The Navy decommissioned the littoral combat ship USS Coronado on Wednesday in a cost-saving move affecting the earliest versions of service’s small warship class. “Today we recognize the great ...

USS Beloit, the US Navy's new littoral combat ship, was commissioned on Saturday. Known as LCS 29, the warship is designed for operations in both shallow waters and open seas. The Navy has retired ...

The newly minted littoral combat ship was built in Marinette, Wisconsin, and is on its way to the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston to be commissioned on Nov. 16, before heading off to its home port ...