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The U.S. Navy's Independence-Class Littoral Combat Ship Was a Nightmare
diminishing ship readiness. The Independence-class, in particular, suffered from hull cracking under stress, limiting their ...
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Littoral Combat Ship Might Be Making a 'Comeback'
What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy's Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Nantucket (LCS-27) was commissioned in Boston, Massachusetts. As the fourteenth ship in its class, Nantucket ...
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Littoral Combat Ships
The namesake of the U.S. Navy’s Independence-class of... The USS Montgomery, one of the U.S. Navy’s troubled Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) successfully fired sea-based missiles at a target on ...
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US Navy Looking To Retire Futuristic Prototype Ships
But those initial four ships, two of each LCS class, would need to have all those improvements retrofitted before they could be on par with their peers. As such, the Navy had previously decided to ...
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The Navy wants to ditch 4 of its ‘little crappy ships’ more than a decade early
In the latest sign that the Navy seems to have finally given up on the issue-plagued 'little crappy ships,' the service reportedly plans on decommissioning its first four littoral combat ship in ...
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USS Sioux City (LCS 11) is the Navy's new ship
The US Navy just welcomed the USS Sioux City (LCS 11) to its fleet. The 387-foot combat warship was released into the Menominee River in Wisconsin on January 30, 2016. Produced by Emma Fierberg ...