Tag: littoral combat ship
USS Milwaukee returns to sea after battling COVID-19 outbreak
US Navy littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) returned to sea on January 3, after previously being tied to port as...
US Navy fires CO, XO of USS Montgomery
The US Navy fired the commanding officer and executive officer of Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Montgomery (LCS 8) on December 30,...
US Navy receives 15th Independence-class LCS, 4th LCAC
The US Navy has taken delivery of two significant assets in two separate handovers on December 21 and December 22.
Austal gets deal to repair US Navy LCS on operations in...
The US Navy and Austal USA recently signed a contract that will see the company support the operations of littoral combat ships...
US Navy receives first LCS with fixed combining gear issue
The US Navy has received the first littoral combat ship since suspending deliveries over a fleet-wide issue related to their complicated combining...
US LCS Billings wraps up maiden Caribbean Sea counter-drug stint
US Navy's Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Billings (LCS 15) returned to Mayport, Florida, on October 30, completing its first deployment to...
US Navy christens 16th Independence-variant LCS ‘Santa Barbara’
The US Navy christened its 16th Independence-class littoral combat ship, the future USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32), at Austal USA's Gulf Coast...
Second US Navy LCS retires after 13 years of service
USS Freedom, the US Navy's first littoral combat ship, completed its final deployment April this year.
Lockheed launches LCS Nantucket with critical fix to fleet still years...
LCS 27 is the first US Navy ship to be named after Nantucket, Massachusetts in over 100 years.
The US Navy just decommissioned its first LCS after only 11...
Independence is the first of four littoral combat ships the navy plans to decommission this year. The youngest will retire after 9 years of service.
