The US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mission Modules programme office has integrated the upgraded Counter-Uncrewed Aircraft System (C-UAS) capabilities aboard the forward-deployed Freedom ...

(Lockheed Martin) Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) has been outfitted with counter-unmanned aircraft system (C-UAS) capabilities, the US Navy (USN) confirmed on ...

receiving the upgrade in November 2024 and USS Indianapolis (LCS-17) fielding it while forward deployed with the 5th Fleet in ...

“It was very successful,” he said. This year, Indianapolis (LCS-17) returned to CENTCOM and is “the first LCS to conduct sustained operations in Fifth Fleet, currently underway there today ...

It comes in at $17.7 million above what we had last year for ... CARES-funded programs and services including funding for LCS's virtual academy and restorative suspension center; and increasing ...

according to an April 17 Navy news release. The successful operation is one of several examples in recent years of an LCS nabbing drug smugglers. In 2020, USS Gabrielle Giffords stopped a vessel ...

It was meant to serve for 25 years. USS Sioux City, a Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship, was commissioned into service with the Navy on November 17, 2018. Roughly four years and nine months later ...

MANAMA, Bahrain — The Navy is on track to homeport four Independence-class littoral combat ships in Bahrain next year as part of a new mine countermeasures force in the Middle East, service ...

(Images credit: Naval Sea Systems Command and USS Indianapolis LCS 17’s Facebook page, edited by The Aviationist) The SUW MP is designed to provide fleet protection from small boats and other ...