The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program has absorbed billions of dollars and years of criticism over mechanical failures ...
The Littoral Combat Ship was supposed to be the Navy's next big breakthrough — a lightweight, fast, and flexible vessel designed to operate close to shorelines, where larger warships struggled. But ...
Rising Tides is an opinion column about Mobile. Today’s guest columnist is Larry Ryder. Twenty years ago, Austal USA started construction of its first Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, the USS ...
The Navy has retired most of its dedicated minesweeping vessels—but the Littoral Combat Ship has the same capabilities and could fill in for them in the Strait of Hormuz. President Donald Trump has ...
Can a ship class written off as a procurement mistake become useful precisely because naval warfare keeps rewarding narrow, ...