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

The Littoral Combat Ship was designed for operations close to shore. Its modular design allows the Navy to adapt the ship to different missions. Speed, automation, and flexibility define its role.

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A commander described it as a milestone in the effort to deploy cheap drones. The launch comes as the Pentagon tries to keep pace with new technology in modern warfare. A US Navy warship operating in ...

Wars are rarely fought with perfect equipment. Throughout history, militaries have fielded weapons they knew were flawed, ...

President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new class of battleships bearing his name puts a fresh spotlight on a US naval shipbuilding program that has fallen short on delivering the new warships on ...

Vietnamese state television footage aired in early January and subsequently circulated online has offered a rare and ...

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 ...

Personnel assigned to U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet (NAVCENT/C5F) successfully launched a one-way attack drone from a ship at sea for the first time on Dec. 16. (Navy) The U.S. Navy ...

A Low-cost Unmanned Combat Attack System one-way attack drone, like those shown here on a tarmac at a US Central Command base, was launched from a littoral combat ship. (US Department of Defense) ...

A Navy warship’s successful launch of a one-way attack drone this week was a watershed in the Defense Department push to get hundreds of thousands of the transformational aircraft into the field, ...

On Tuesday, the Navy conducted the first successful launch of a one-way attack unmanned aerial system from a warship at sea. The USS Santa Barbara, an Independence-class littoral combat ship, launched ...