The Independence-class LCS has been re-adapted for use as a minesweeper, although there are concerns that its aluminum hull ...

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 ...

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is presented as a deeply flawed naval experiment. The decision to build two competing ...

The USS Kingsville, one of the last Independence-class littoral combat ships built for the Navy, was christened Saturday in Corpus Christi, Texas. Cmdr. Ludwig Mann III, Kingsville’s commanding ...

The future USS Pierre, the last of 19 Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships built by Austal USA, makes its final departure ...

The upcoming commissioning ceremony of the U.S. Navy’s USS Pierre is putting our region in a national spotlight. The USS ...

Panama City will host the commissioning of the USS Pierre (LCS 38) on Nov. 15 at the Port of Panama City. According to a news ...

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These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

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, ...

Summary and Key Points: In the lead-up to WWII, President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized the need to expand U.S. naval air power. With limited resources and the urgency of war,... Summary and Key ...