USS Canberra (LCS 30) arrived at Naval Support Activity Bahrain on 22 May – the first LCS to deploy with the ...

MANAMA, Bahrain – The littoral combat ship USS Canberra (LCS 30) arrived at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, May 22, the first of four of the class expected to be stationed in the region.

Another group of sailors that have been assigned to the United States Navy’s USS Pierre (LCS38) littoral combat ship will ...

Orr says that early models, such as the USS Freedom (LCS-1) and USS Independence (LCS-2), have been decommissioned despite their intended 25-year service lives. He states the LCS has been plagued ...

-(Allegedly) under-armed and unable to survive in hostile combat environments Accordingly, several of the LCS warships—including ... you consider that the USS Independence alone has a total ...

In July 2021, the United States Navy decommissioned the USS Independence (LCS-2) with little fanfare in a pier-side ceremony in San Diego. The namesake of the U.S. Navy’s Independence-class of ...

USS Freedom (LCS 1) was delivered to the Navy on Sept. 18, 2008. USS Independence (LCS 2) was constructed by General Dynamics, Bath Iron Works in the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Ala.

two months after LCS 2, the former USS Independence. Decommissioning more LCS now “is a difficult funding decision that allows the Navy to free resources needed to invest in higher ...

USS Independence, in being decommissioned as well. The average cost of a littoral combat ship is around $500 million including design work, construction and government-furnished equipment ...

Craig Hooper evaluates security threats and proposes solutions. It was a sad end for the USS Independence (LCS-2), now consigned to the reserve fleet after eleven years of unremarkable service.

USS Independence (LCS-2) is moored alongside the pier during its decommissioning ceremony at Naval Base San Diego, Calif., on July 29, 2021. US Navy Photo The namesake of the Navy’s Independence ...

Ship's crew deliver the ensign and commissioning pennant during the decommissioning ceremony of littoral combat ship USS Independence (LCS 2). (MC1 Jason Abrams/U.S. Navy) The littoral combat ship ...