The Navy defended its plan to move heel-to-toe from its Littoral Combat Ship into the LCS-based frigate program despite a Government Accountability Office report released today that suggested the ...

These new systems, as well as the overall multimission capability the frigate will bring – compared to the mission-specific capability of the LCS and its mission packages – will all have to be ...

General Dynamics/Austal and Lockheed Martin/Fincantieri have already shown preliminary LCS-based frigate designs at the Surface Navy Association's 2018 National Symposium last month. Both ...

The Navy's new up-gunned Littoral Combat Ship called the Small Surface Combatant has been officially re-designated as a Frigate, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Jan. 15 at the Surface Navy ...

The first of the types to be redesignated is the LCS. "If it's like a frigate, why don't we call it a frigate?" he said Jan. 14 Thursday morning to a roomful of surface warfare sailors at the ...

This week the U.S. Navy published details on what it's after for its next surface combatant, the FFG(X), or guided missile frigate. This move is designed to shift away from the Littoral Combat ...

Navy releases requirements for new guided-missile frigate, effectively turning its back on the troubled, decade-long Littoral Combat Ship program. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist ...

And as an example for LCS, the Perry-class frigates have as much going against them as they do in their favor. They’re mostly irrelevant in today’s battlespace; they lost their ‘one-armed ...

It would be grimly ironic should the Constellation programme suffer similar issues as seen in the twin variant LCS project, the class of warships the future frigate is intended to replace.

WASHINGTON — Details of the new Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) frigate program's acquisition strategy are still being reviewed, the US Navy said, and the service will likely fall more than a month ...

In a shipbuilding era characterized by twin desires for stability in design and lower costs, the two LCS-derived frigates should break from the gate with a solid advantage. Their designs include a ...

The Navy's new up-gunned Littoral Combat Ship called the Small Surface Combatant has been officially re-designated as a Frigate, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Jan. 15 at the Surface Navy ...