The Independence-class LCS has been re-adapted for use as a minesweeper, although there are concerns that its aluminum hull might not be ideally suited for that purpose. USS Pierre (LCS-38) departed ...
January 8, 2022: The U.S. Navy has not made it official yet, but its ambitious but poorly implemented "Littoral Combat Ship" (LCS) program is rapidly fading away after more than a decade of effort to ...
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), ...