Join the United States Navy as it commissions its newest Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, USS Pierre (LCS 38), during ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

Key Points and Summary – U.S. shipbuilding is struggling. Post-COVID workforce losses, aging yards, and unstable budgets have ...

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. Delivery of LCS-38 marked the ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

Shipbuilder Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy on Friday, marking the end of a construction phase that’s lasted 15 years. The Alabama-based Austal ...

The Navy has been accused of stealing design elements for its Littoral Combat Ship and refusing to play the inventor who came up with them. In this case, the accusation may well have weight. Share on ...

While the U.S. Navy still officially counts the Griffin missile as part of the Littoral Combat Ship’s (LCS) surface warfare (SUW) module package, the service is now testing the system aboard other ...

Recent shipboard tests of the Griffin missile prove that it will work with the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) surface warfare (SUW) mission module package, but the U.S. Navy is still looking at ...

Families welcome the USS Savannah as it returns to Naval Base San Diego. (Photo by Kassandra Alanis/U.S. Navy) The littoral combat ship USS Savannah returned to Naval Base San Diego this week ...