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The U.S. Navy Built Two Versions of the Littoral Combat Ship. Both Were a Mess.

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, ...
Stars and Stripes

New Navy ship USS Nantucket commissioned while ‘stern to stern’ with the oldest Navy ship

The USS Nantucket was commissioned at a ceremony in Boston, Mass., on Saturday morning, three years after it was first launched and five years after construction began. The USS Nantucket is a littoral ...
Task & Purpose

The Navy turned its ‘little crappy ship’ into a mine hunter

After twenty years and billions of dollars, littoral combat ships are finally performing mine countermeasures as originally planned. By Kyle Gunn Published Sep 9, 2025 3:20 PM EDT After more than two ...
The National Interest

The Rise and Fall of the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships

The U.S. Navy on March 1 accepted delivery of the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36) at Austal USA’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama. The vessel is the 18th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship ...
The National Interest

Littoral Combat Ship: Was It Really a Failure for the Navy?

-(Allegedly) under-armed and unable to survive in hostile combat environments Accordingly, several of the LCS warships—including LCS-1 and LCS-2 no less—have already been decommissioned, which is ...