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 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 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 ...

The 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 Diego later this year.

March 8, 2024: This year the U.S. Navy decided to reverse its plan to quickly discard its remaining LCS (Littoral Combat Ships) and instead upgrade many of them. In late 2023 it came as no surprise ...

As the Navy seeks to improve the self-sufficiency of its littoral combat ships, the service is moving to have sailors conduct nearly all the maintenance for the vessels in the near future, according ...

Key Points and Summary - The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is presented as a deeply flawed naval experiment. The decision to build two competing designs, the Freedom and Independence classes, ...

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 ...

The multihull Independence class was a 3,100-ton ship with a max speed of 87 kilometers an hour and max endurance of 21 days. It could travel up to 8,000 kilometers at 37 kilometers an hour before ...

(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 ...

Littoral Combat Ship – On the Comeback Trail? Arguably one of the prime examples of government waste in recent history, the U.S. Navy’s fleet of Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) have been plagued by ...