Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS 11), homeported at Naval Station Mayport, Jacksonville, Fla., arrives at the Marathi NATO Pier Complex in Souda Bay, Greece, to undergo ...

The Littoral Combat Ship Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS-21) delivered to the Navy after almost a year of waiting for a fix to the gearing mechanism that connects the ship’s gas turbines and diesel ...

The Freedom-variant littoral combat ships USS Sioux City (LCS 11), USS Wichita (LCS 13), USS Billings (LCS 15), and their embarked aviation detachments participate in a maritime training exercise ...

The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program was developed in the early 2000s to tackle threats in coastal or littoral ... experienced propulsion system failures with its combining gear, ...

The string of combining gear casualties dating back to at least late 2015, ... USNS Grapple tows the littoral combat ship Milwaukee, LCS-5, to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, ...

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 ...

Tests to fix problems with the Freedom-class littoral combat ships' combining gear will take place ashore, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told reporters on Monday.

Issues with the combining gear of the Freedom-class LCS variants have forced the Navy to halt further acceptance of new ships. The CNO called that a “big problem.” ...

The Navy is currently investigating a potential class-wide design flaw in its Freedom-class littoral combat ship fleet. ... an issue with the USS Detroit’s combining gear forced the vessel to ...

While RENK GmbH factory technicians tinker with the proposed combining gear fix, time is getting short if the Navy wants to get a Freedom Class littoral combat ship fixed and accepted before 2022 ...

The littoral combat ship Sioux City recently completed what the Navy is calling an “historic” deployment that saw the Florida-based ship become the first LCS to operate in the waters of U.S ...

The Navy has fixed the combining gear in nearly half of its Freedom-class littoral combat ships—including one it aims to decommission in two years.