Both the LCS and the stealth destroyers were seen as failures for being the wrong ships at the wrong time, and while the U.S. Navy cut the Zumwalt-class program to just three ships – which made ...

The U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program, once envisioned as a multi-role, near-shore operational vessel, is now widely regarded as a mistake. What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy's ...

The U.S. Navy announced it has accepted delivery of the second-to-last Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future ...

First because the event marked the 16th and final Freedom-class littoral combat ship that will be delivered ... ‘You Really Oughta Go Home’: F-22 Raptor Stealth Fighter Flew Under F-4 From ...

One Ship, Two Designs, Neither for Intense Combat The LCS is nominally a single class of warship, but it is made up of two completely different ships, the trimaran-hull Independence variant and ...

But while nobody wants to kill an established program of record, there are enough options on the table right now that even the most committed members of the Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship ...

Simultaneously the USS Zumwalt, the Navy’s newest stealth land attack destroyer ... These three (really four, given the differences in the LCS variants) ships represent the very cutting edge ...

needing to “purchase over twice the amount of aluminum sheets for each LCS ship than initially budgeted”. Labor was low-balled, and ended up “higher than the labor bid costs”. The ...

Naval Sea Systems Command is planning a Nov. 1 industry day on the Littoral Combat Ship mission modules development, engineering, production and sustainment (DEPS) program, according to a Monday ...

USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), the lead vessel of a class of guided-missile stealth ... LCS or Zumwalt class. Naval Surface Force Atlantic confirmed last week that the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship ...

The LCS® Mobile-Bearing Total Knee system contains primary cruciate-retaining and cruciate-sacrificing components as well as a full range of revision options. Fixed all-poly as well as rotating ...

The U.S. Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Beloit (LCS 29) from Lockheed Martin at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine ...