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.

Key Points and Summary - The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program is presented as a deeply flawed naval experiment. The decision to build two competing designs, the Freedom and Independence classes, ...

Step aboard the USS Savannah, one of the U.S. Navy’s newest and fastest warships - a $500 million littoral combat ship built ...

The U.S. Navy will commission its newest ship, the USS Pierre (LCS 38), in Panama City on November 15. This vessel is the 19th and final Independence-variant littoral combat ship, designed for ...

Icon of the Seas is shifting from a planned Eastern Caribbean cruise to a Western Caribbean itinerary due to Tropical Storm Melissa.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has built up an unusually large force in the Caribbean Sea and the waters off the coast ...

President Donald Trump’s deployment of the nation’s most advanced aircraft carrier to South America is pulling the ship out ...

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It isn’t every day that the most famous story of human survival gets an update. But the century-old tale of the Shackleton Expedition—you know, one in which marooned sailors survived off of seal ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of October 14, 2025, based on Navy and public data. In cases ...

It has been 110 years since Endurance, often described as the strongest wooden ship ever built, sank after becoming trapped in sea ice near Antarctica. But a reassessment of the evidence reveals that ...

Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Jesus Madrigal, right, administers an influenza vaccine to Seaman Laura Gutierrez in the sickbay aboard USS Tripoli (LHA-7), Sep. 25, 2025. US Navy photo Amphibious warship ...