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LCS future: Adapting for near-shore dominance & warfare

The ocean doesn’t end at the horizon — and neither does modern naval warfare. Some of the most strategically critical, most ...
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Final Independence-class combat ship delivered to Navy

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shipbuilder Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy on Friday, marking the end of ...
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Navy Commissions Final Independence-Class Littoral Combat Ship as Troubled Program Winds Down

The U.S. Navy commissioned USS Pierre (LCS 38), the 19th and final Independence-variant littoral combat ship, on Friday in Panama City, Florida, marking the end of a program that has struggled to meet ...
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$28,000,000,000 down the drain: The US Navy’s fleet of 32 littoral combat ships just might be its worst mistake ever

A 2022 Government Accountability Office review found the Navy had spent more than $28 billion in constant fiscal 2019 dollars to develop and build 32 Littoral Combat Ships. That is roughly $875 ...
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Surface Forces: LCS Renaissance

July 28, 2025: U.S. Navy is allowing the Marine Corps to have several trimaran Independence class Littoral Combat Ships/LCS ships as Littoral Explosive Ordnance Neutralization/LEON vessels. In plant ...
The National Interest

The US Navy Accepts Its Final Littoral Combat Ship

The final Independence-class LCS will now be retooled for mine warfare, and the ships may finally serve a helpful purpose, replacing aging minesweepers. It is just the second warship to be named for ...
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A look inside the USS Pierre, the last Independence-variant LCS

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAY COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – The Navy's newest and final Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship is ready to join the fleet. The ...
Stars and Stripes

USS Pierre completes sea trials, closing a chapter for the Navy’s Independence-class LCS

The Navy’s last Independence-class littoral combat ship successfully completed sea trials this month, a bittersweet milestone for a group of vessels that were once planned to be a bigger part of the ...
Maritime Executive

Very Last Littoral Combat Ship Completes Acceptance Trials

Austal USA successfully completed acceptance trials on the company’s 19th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the last ship in the class. Future USS Pierre (LCS 38) returned to port late ...
Stars and Stripes

Navy commissions Independence-class LCS USS Pierre, the last of its kind

The newest ship in the Navy, the USS Pierre, was commissioned Saturday in Panama City, Fla.: “Welcome to the fleet,” said Navy Secretary John Phelan, who gave the keynote address. Pierre is the 19th ...
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Rising Tides: The ship that changed Mobile and the end of an era

Rising Tides is an opinion column about Mobile. Today’s guest columnist is Larry Ryder. Twenty years ago, Austal USA started construction of its first Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, the USS ...
The National Interest

Littoral Combat Ship

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy’s Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS) USS Nantucket (LCS-27) was commissioned in Boston, Massachusetts. As the fourteenth ship in its class, Nantucket is ...