The Navy has determined a flaw in the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship’s combining gear, a complicated gearing mechanism that links the engines of the ship, is an engineering defect that ...

The Littoral Combat Ship USS Freedom (LCS-1) is sidelined in San Diego, Calif. for repairs after Navy inspectors found extensive damage in one of its two main propulsion diesel engines ...

The littoral combat ship USS Freedom will need an engine rebuild or replacement after a seawater leak resulted in significant damage, Navy officials said. The Freedom is the third ship in the ...

The sun is setting on the pier-bound Freedom class LCS. The Navy’s strange refusal to promptly confront the Freedom class’s dizzying array of performance problems inflict real operational ...

WASHINGTON — This time it's USS Freedom. In yet another blow for its seemingly perpetually-troubled littoral combat ship program, the US Navy revealed Sunday that one of two main propulsion ...

The LCS Freedom-variant, operationally deployed today, is an unmatched and highly adaptable warship, designed to outpace the growing threat of our adversaries and fulfill the dynamic missions of ...

The Freedom and Independence variant of the Littoral Combat Ship is the U.S. Navy’s newest warship and is a fast, agile, focused-mission platform designed for operation in near-shore ...

Republicans Are Getting Duly Nervous over Trump’s Iran Nuclear Deal Steve Witkoff Is a Master of Confusion The Fulcrum of History The fate of the Freedom-class littoral-combat ship, plagued by ...

Amid China’s boosting of its maritime presence, the US Navy has received its 14th Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), USS Nantucket (LCS 27). Nantucket was accepted from Lockheed Martin ...

NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. — This year, the troubled Freedom-variant littoral combat ship will look to catch up with its Independence-class counterparts, which were fielded faster and expanded ...

The US Navy has commissioned into service the antepenultimate Freedom-class variant of the twin-design Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) programme, with the USS Nantucket formally joining the fleet at a ...

The crew of the littoral combat ship Freedom disembark the ship for the final time during its decommissioning ceremony Sept. 29. (MC2 Vance Hand/Navy) The USS Freerdom, the Navy’s first littoral ...