there are many targets softer than the littoral of the PRC. Aircraft carriers still provide mobile airfields that are arguably more survivable than static facilities. Even if carriers are at risk ...

The 12th Littoral Combat Team will receive the Navy/Marine Expeditionary Ship Interdiction System, or NMESIS, in fiscal 2026.

An infantry battalion known as the “China Marines,” has been reborn as a littoral combat team as part of the Marine Corps’ force structure changes that focus on China and the Pacific.

The USS Savannah, an Independence-class littoral combat ship assigned to the 7th Fleet, joined the Charles de Gaulle carrier strike group in naval drills in the Philippine Sea—within China’s ...

We spoke to experts about the worst threats to America’s aircraft carriers—and how the Navy could defend its floating fortresses.