An American littoral combat ship in the Persian Gulf flicked a switch just before dawn on December 16 and hurled a stub-nosed ...

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 ...

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy is moving to retire several Littoral Combat Ships after barely a decade in service, an unusually early exit for frontline warships. -Conceived as fast, modular ...

Naval Station Mayport’s littoral combat ship fleet is smaller than it has been in years following the decommissioning of two vessels Friday, raising to four the number retired since August. Four other ...

The littoral combat ship USS Canberra arrived at the U.S. naval base in Bahrain last week, the first of four new vessels expected to replace aging mine countermeasures ships in the Middle East, ...

The littoral combat ship was built to operate where traditional warships struggle. Shallow waters, tight maneuvering, and ...

Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship to the Navy Friday, the shipbuilder announced. Future USS Pierre (LCS-38), the second U.S. ship to be named after South Dakota’s ...

The future USS Little Rock™s (LCS 9) Builder™s Trials were completed in Lake Michigan on Aug. 17. The sea trials tested the ship’s performance under a variety of conditions, including situations not ...

The Navy says the San Diego-based littoral combat ship USS Canberra has arrived in Bahrain, where it is the first of four vessels in its class assigned to find and disable mines in the Persian Gulf ...

A LUCAS drone launches from the USS Santa Barbara in the Arabian Gulf. (Photo courtesy of the Navy) The crew of the USS Santa Barbara and personnel from U.S. Naval Forces Central Command successfully ...

The USS Savannah returned to San Diego on Thursday, wrapping up a year-long deployment to the Indo-Pacific that illustrated the ability of littoral combat ships to carry out long patrols by using a ...