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The evolving mission of the US Navy’s littoral combat ship
The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program has had one of the most turbulent histories in modern American naval procurement ...
As the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1) USS Freedom works its way through deployment exercises in the Asia-Pacific, a recent U.S. Congressional Research Service (CRS) report underscores the ...
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LCS future: Adapting for near-shore dominance & warfare
The ocean doesn’t end at the horizon — and neither does modern naval warfare. Some of the most strategically critical, most ...
THE PENTAGON — While no program is guaranteed protection during these days of fiscal austerity, the U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) acquisition plans are as safe as any other from substantial ...
The Navy has awarded a contract worth up to $169 million over five years to Computer Sciences Corp. to furnish an array of support services to the Littoral Combat Ship Program Office. Under the ...
An LCS can also carry two MH-60 helicopters or two slightly smaller MQ-8C helicopter UAVs (or one of each). In addition to basic armament and electronics (sea and air search radars) the LCS crew was ...
-Despite numerous issues and early retirements of the class, the Navy has repurposed these vessels for modern mine countermeasure missions, enhancing mine countermeasure forces in Bahrain. The USS ...
Whenever a defense contractor or a Pentagon spokesperson starts talking about their new “cost-effective” program, just know that it’s a bunch of malarkey. The program is usually going way over budget, ...
Both LCS designs were supposed to be for ships displacing 2,500 tons, with a full load draft of under 3.3 meters (ten feet), permitting access to very shallow "green" and even "brown" coastal and ...
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