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Littoral Combat Ship Might Be Making a 'Comeback'
While the LCS proposed capabilities seemed solid, the ships did not live up to expectations ... against mine threats using sensors and weapons deployed from the MCM Unmanned Surface Vehicle ...
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US Navy Looking To Retire Futuristic Prototype Ships
It may be that a fully-modular warship isn’t practical with current technology, but the LCS program at least demonstrated that replacing weapons and equipment without bringing the ship back to ...
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Winning: The LCS Redemption
February 26, 2025: Last 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. The only combat an LCS has seen was ...
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Broke Down and Tied to the Pier — the U.S. Naval Fleet Is in Dire Need of Reinforcement
These three (really four, given the differences in the LCS variants) ships represent the very cutting edge of maritime technology. The Ford, with its electric drive system, was to launch and ...
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LCS 27: US Navy inducts fast, agile, shallow-draft, networked surface ship
Reconfigurable spaces and weapons modules support service interfaces ... the US Navy has received its 14th Freedom-variant ...
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The Navy Is Finally Deploying Its Worst Warship Again After Years Of Problems
After years of frequent mechanical failures ad embarrassing cost overruns, the Navy finally plans on deploying three hulls from its much-derided Littoral Combat Ship fleet by this fall after a ...
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The Navy wants to ditch 4 of its ‘little crappy ships’ more than a decade early
In the latest sign that the Navy seems to have finally given up on the issue-plagued 'little crappy ships,' the service reportedly plans on decommissioning its first four littoral combat ship in ...
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Lockheed Martin wins three new DoD naval contracts including on Littoral Combat Ships
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has announced that three new contracts totalling more than US$140 million for various ...
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Second LCS over 64% complete, says Khaled
KUALA LUMPUR: The construction status of the second Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has currently reached 64.66% completion, says Defence Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin. He said total ...