Sea Slice was an outgrowth of SWATH (small waterplane area twin hull) designs that had become ... and sensors and put to duty as a Littoral Combat Ship proof of concept test surrogate.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Navy is naming a combat ship after the Twin Cities. The Department of Defense said in a news release Thursday that the Navy's next Freedom-class littoral combat ship ...

Born from the attack on the USS Cole in 2000, the new Littoral Combat Ship ... the shape of ships past. According to a Navy briefing paper, "[The LCS] will feature an advanced hull form and ...

What You Need to Know: The Littoral Combat Ship ... and her sister ships bear the following specifications and vital stats: Displacement: 3.450 tons fully laden Hull length: 387.6 ft (118.1 ...

The Navy plans to christen its newest littoral combat ship, the USS Minneapolis-Saint ... naval vessel to carry the name of Minnesota’s Twin Cities. The first USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul was ...

The Navy’s troubled littoral combat ship program has a new problem: hull cracks. The cracks in the aluminum hulls are created if the ship travels less than half its maximum speed, or in ...

Surface navy leaders are turning to fleet commanders for ideas about how they want to use littoral combat ships, as the U.S ... LCS is also a “very potent hull” to use alongside Marines ...

The Navy Times has reported that cracks have been a problem in the plating of Littoral Combat Ships built in Mobile ... structural defects” at a specific hull location and recommends that ...

Since its commissioning in 2018, the littoral combat ship Omaha has developed cracks in its hull and superstructure that limit the speed it can travel and the sea states it can operate in.

The United States Navy is decommissioning nine of its Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship and eliminating the anti-submarine warfare (ASW) missions for the combat vessels. The Navy called to scrap 24 ...