The US Navy commissioned the last of its 35 littoral combat ships, the USS Cleveland, earlier this month at a pier in its ...
As the French fabulist and poet Jean de la Fontaine once wrote, “a person often meets his destiny on the road he took to ...
LCS 31 is the fourth warship named for the Ohio city and the last of 35 littoral combat ships the Navy built over the last ...
WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus defended the embattled $34 billion Littoral Combat Ship program on Wednesday and said the ability to reconfigure the ships to carry out ...
Any recent perusal of the defense news or blog pages would suggest the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) is in for a rough year. The USS Milwaukee (LCS 5), the newest commissioned LCS unit, suffered a ...
The Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS Cleveland is commissioned in a ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, May 16, 2026. (MCS3 Jasmin L. Aquino/U.S. Navy) The service commissioned the USS Cleveland during ...
The Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), or frigates (FF) as future variants of the LCS will be called, have been a ripe subject for hyperbole and strawmen in contemporary debates over military acquisition ...
Summary: The U.S. Navy recently acquired the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36), the 18th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship, despite ongoing criticisms of the LCS program. Named after Kingsville, ...
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano – maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner – ...
The USS Cleveland is the 16th and final Freedom-class littoral combat ship to enter service, as the Navy tries to get rid of the vessels.