The US Navy Is Repairing Freedom-Class Combat Ships At Sea Now (And Here's Why It Matters)

The Freedom-class LCS isn't a large warship like the Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, designed to stay near the coast ...
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The US Navy’s Final Independence-Class Littoral Combat Ship Just Set Sail

The Independence-class LCS has been re-adapted for use as a minesweeper, although there are concerns that its aluminum hull ...

End of an era: The last Littoral Combat Ship built in Mobile has left for open waters

The future USS Pierre, the last of 19 Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships built by Austal USA, makes its final departure ...
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US base in Bahrain trades out last minesweeper, ushering in era of LCS replacements

MANAMA, Bahrain — Sailors at a base home to the Navy’s hub in the Middle East bid farewell Thursday to the last of their wooden-hulled mine hunting ships in a mission handoff to four larger vessels ...
The National Interest

Why the US Navy Is Decommissioning Its Minesweepers

A noteworthy fact about the Avenger-class minesweepers is that their hulls are constructed of wood—so as to avoid metal hull detection technology in modern naval mines. The four warships have been ...
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Marine Colonel Leads PMA-266 at Pax River

Marine Col. Leigh Irwin assumed command of the Multi-Mission Tactical Unmanned Aerial Systems program office (PMA-266) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River on September 18, 2025, relieving Navy Capt.
Times of San Diego

Mission Bay senior named semi-finalist for National Merit Scholarship

PACIFIC BEACH – Mission Bay High senior Julian Rosenblum was recently named a semi-finalist in the National Merit Scholarship competition for the Class of 2026. Born in New York, Rosenblum went to the ...
Fox 5 San Diego

Sailboat carrying undocumented migrants intercepted by Coast Guard in Mission Bay

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — A United States Coast Guard boarding team intercepted four undocumented migrants aboard a sailboat in Mission Bay on Saturday, officials confirmed. According to a press ...

National spotlight on Bay County for USS Pierre commissioning ceremony

The upcoming commissioning ceremony of the U.S. Navy’s USS Pierre is putting our region in a national spotlight. The USS ...
Times of San Diego

Coast Guard intercepts two suspected smuggling attempts off Mission Bay

The 36-foot sailboat that was intercepted off Mission Bay Saturday. (Photo courtesy of the United States Coast Guard) U.S. Coast Guard crews stopped two suspected maritime smuggling attempts over the ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Four Mexican nationals detained from sailboat in Mission Bay

Four Mexican nationals, including a 17-year-old girl, were taken into custody off a 36-foot sailboat in Mission Bay on Saturday morning, Coast Guard officials said. The agency said it received a ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

Witnesses stop assailant during stabbing attack on Mission Bay bartender

A bartender who was repeatedly stabbed by an assailant in a Mission Beach steakhouse on Thursday was saved when his colleagues and nearby beachgoers intervened, San Diego police said. The incident ...