The U.S. Navy carried out a crash program last year to enable Freedom class littoral combat ships (LCS) armed with radar-guided AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles to fire those weapons against ...

The Navy may have capped its fleet of much-anticipated— and much-maligned —littoral combat ships at 28 for now, but their ...

The Navy last summer introduced a software change to a surface-to-surface missile package aboard one of its Littoral Combat ...

The USS Cleveland, the next and final ship of the Freedom class, is under construction and will be delivered in 2025. The ...

Amid China’s boosting of its maritime presence, the US Navy has received its 14th Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), ...

(MENAFN- Asia Times) New missile systems boost the US Navy's troubled Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program's firepower, but questions remain about whether upgrades can redeem its costly, embattled ...

February5, 2007: On January 29th, the U.S. Navy fired the naval officer (a captain), who was program manager for the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program. Two weeks earlier, the navy had halted work on ...

A Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has success­fully undergone water testing with another planned for it early next year, reveals the Defence Minister.

The Littoral Combat Ship was conceived following the Cold War to be the low-end component of a new “21st-century family of ships” for the United States Navy. Facing no peer adversaries ...

The LCS “block-buy” bid was one of the first bids for Navy work the shipbuilder developed ... the amount of aluminum sheets for each LCS ship than initially budgeted”. Labor was low-balled ...