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The genius behind America’s shape-shifting warship

This in-depth lecture explores the full story of the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS)—a vessel once envisioned as a ...
The National Interest

Littoral Combat Vessel

This much is clear: Nobody wants the Littoral Combat Ship, and yet here it is. The USS St. Louis was launched and christened on Saturday as the latest Freedom-class installment of its Littoral ...
Yahoo

Navy finally finds something the LCS is good at: Stopping drug smuggling

USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, a Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship, made two drug busts within 72 hours, seizing more than $9.5 million of cocaine and roughly $2.8 million of marijuana. The ...
La Crosse Tribune

Navy to name new Wisconsin-built combat ship after Twin Cities

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Navy is naming a combat ship after the Twin Cities. The Department of Defense said in a news release Thursday that the Navy's next Freedom-class littoral combat ship would ...
WPRI 12

Bristol announces Navy ship coming to town for 4th of July

BRISTOL, R.I. (WPRI) — The U.S. Navy is sending the USS Billings up Narragansett Bay to be part of Bristol’s Fourth of July Celebration. The 378-foot Freedom-class littoral combat ship will arrive in ...
Times of San Diego

Navy commissions final littoral combat ship bound for San Diego

Distinguished guests watch the crew aboard the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Pierre in Panama City. (Photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy) The Navy on Saturday commissioned the last of the ...
Aviation Week

New Manning Strategy For LCS Proving Successful

The additional crewmembers the U.S. Navy decided to put aboard its first-of-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1), the USS Freedom, on its first deployment are working well, says Vice Adm. Richard Hunt, ...