PANAMA CITY, Fla. — While some defense and government analysts continue to doubt the survivability and firepower of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) fleet, there’s one aviation asset that few question ...

LCS MODULES: The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $25.2 million contract for three additional Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mission modules — two for surface warfare missions and one for mine ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) has received a $21.6 million contract from the U.S. Navy for two additional Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) mission packages As the mission package integrator, the ...

The U.S. Navy embarked the first Mine Countermeasures Mission Package (MCM MP) aboard USS Canberra (LCS 30), April 18, service officials announced. With the MCM mission package now onboard LCS 30, the ...

USS Indianapolis , shown here completing acceptance trials, was recently outfitted with C-UAS capabilities. (Lockheed Martin) Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) has ...

The LCS demonstrated it could not replace the old Perry class frigates or be of much use at all. Without the mission modules, the LCS could only be used as a coastal patrol ship that was only able to ...

Advanced Acoustic Concepts, Hauppauge, New York, is being awarded $27,461,965 modification P00028 to previously awarded contract N00024-12-C-6311 to provide additional contract line item numbers to ...

The littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords operates near the Chinese vessel Hai Yang Di Zhi 4 Hao on July 1, 2020, in the South China Sea. (Navy) The Navy’s littoral combat ship fleet could see a new ...

Summary and Key Points: The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was intended to be the U.S. Navy’s versatile, affordable answer to post-Cold War threats, capable of missions from mine-hunting to anti-piracy.

Littoral Combat Ship: Could the U.S. Navy’s Crappy Little Ships Be Headed to Greece? – The United States Navy has seemed lost in what to do with its Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), and even as new ...

Last week on Time’s Battleland blog there was a piece by Mr. John Sayen entitled The Navy’s New Class of Warships: Big Bucks, Little Bang. Obviously, Mr. Sayen is not a fan of the Littoral Combat Ship ...