Kingsville (LCS-38) pier-side at Austal USA’s shipyard in Mobile, Ala., on Jan. 31, 2024. Austal USA Photo The Navy’s penultimate aluminum Littoral Combat Ship was accepted into the service late last ...

Summary: While countless naval experts canning this warship for years, starting next year, the Navy will homeport four Independence-class littoral combat ships in Bahrain to enhance mine ...

For the U.S. Navy, boats perform missions from mundane maintenance chores such as hull scraping and cleaning overboard discharges to clandestine special forces insertion and extraction. Some boats are ...

March 8, 2024: This 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. In late 2023 it came as no surprise ...

The U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ship is considered the vessel that “made the company” and its Mobile operations. But the goodbye to the LCS program in Alabama on Saturday came with a little looking ...

Recent ship trials for the fourth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-4), the Coronado, indicate major progress being made with the Independence-class LCS variants, U.S. Navy officials say. “Coronado’s ...

Textron Systems' Aerosonde UAS successfully completed its first operational flight from a U.S. Navy littoral combat ship (LCS). This follows a $19.5 million contract with the Navy to provide UAS ...

It is only the second time in the U.S. Navy’s history that a warship will be named after a living woman. The U.S. Navy is slated to commission its new supercarrier this year, along with six surface ...

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The San Diego-bound littoral combat ship USS Kingsville will be commissioned Saturday in Corpus Christi, Texas, as the next-to-last Independence-class littoral combat ship scheduled to be built for ...