The ship, which cost nearly $600 million to build, is the last Independence-class LCS to be built for the Navy.

据造船商奥斯塔美国公司（Austal USA）称，美国海军最后一艘“独立”级濒海战斗舰（Littoral Combat Ship）——未来的“皮埃尔”号（USS Pierre，LCS ...

LUMUT: The Tengku Permaisuri of Selangor, Tengku Permaisuri Norashikin, has officiated the launch and naming ceremony of the ...

An Army MK 70 missile launcher on the flight deck of Littoral Combat Ship USS Savannah (LCS-28) in San Diego, Calif. Photo obtained by USNI News This post has been updated with additional ...

The U.S. Navy wants to retire four ships of the controversial Littoral Combat Ship class, including one ship that is just six years old. The four ships all have at least 10, if not 20 years of ...

The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program was developed in the early 2000s to tackle threats in coastal or littoral environments. To that end, the U.S. Navy ultimately fielded two distinct ...

The U.S. Navy has confirmed it will decommission the first two Littoral Combat Ships, likely beginning what could be a unhappy reckoning with a program that has consumed billions of dollars ...

What You Need to Know: The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program has faced considerable scrutiny, with critics citing high costs, maintenance dependencies, and limited survivability. Notably, some ...

The littoral combat ship USS Jackson (LCS-6) sits pierside in San Diego, Calif. US Navy Photo. Unlike deploying warships that get time to train underway heading west from San Diego on deployment ...

The littoral combat ship program launched in the early 2000s when the United States military was focused on combating irregular warfare targets, with strategy aimed at counterinsurgency.

Chief Petty Officer Ron Banks, USN (l), and Senior Chief Adam Phillips, USN, familiarize themselves with the General Dynamics littoral combat ship (LCS) maritime information command center simulator.