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 final Independence-class LCS will now be retooled for mine warfare, and the ships may finally serve a helpful purpose, replacing aging minesweepers. Last week, Austal USA delivered the 19th and ...
Summary: While countless naval experts canning this warship for years, starting next year, the Navy will homeport four Independence-class littoral combat ships in Bahrain to enhance mine ...
Austal USA celebrated the symbolic keel-laying Friday on what likely will be the last Littoral Combat Ship to enter U.S. Navy service, the beginning of the end for an ambitious, troubled, ...
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 ...
Key Points and Summary - As the final Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is delivered, a review of the program's mixed legacy shows it was a gamble that didn't pay off. -Conceived in the post-9/11 era for low ...
(Tribune News Service) — USS Kingsville, one of the last Independence-class littoral combat ships built for the Navy, has successfully completed acceptance trials and will become homeported in San ...
The U.S. Navy’s most advanced stealth ships don’t look—or fight—like anything that came before them. In this episode, we take you inside the Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship and the ...
Littoral Combat Ship – Why Did it Fail? – Last month, a U.S. Navy ship was stranded in Lake Erie at the Port of Cleveland following a worker’s strike. The service’s latest Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), ...
Kingsville (LCS-38) pier-side at Austal USA’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala., on Jan. 31, 2024. Austal USA Photo The Navy’s penultimate aluminum Littoral Combat Ship was accepted into the service late last ...
September 28, 2023: It came as no surprise when the U.S. Navy recently made it official that its ambitious but poorly implemented "Littoral Combat Ship" (LCS) program will be eliminated. This comes ...