Both the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) seaframes and concepts of operations (Conops) need to be modified to accommodate ship limitations, U.S. Navy officials acknowledge. “The ships’ current ...

HONOLULU, Hawaii — The just-completed first Western Pacific deployment of the U.S. Navy’s first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1), the USS Freedom, is yielding a raft of lessons learned that will likely ...

There has been a lively debate in recent years over whether the appurtenance of American military might—the supercarrier—will be rendered irrelevant, even ...