A Program Built on Promise and Delivered with Problems Few modern American warships have drawn as much criticism as the ...
The ship is the 19th and final Independence-class littoral combat ship, and the second to last of the troubled ships to enter ...
Desperate to find some use for its much-maligned Littoral Combat Ships and equally desperate to add to its roster of fully combat-capable vessels, the US Navy has found a surprising new mission for ...
Key Points and Summary – DDG(X) is the U.S. Navy’s bid to move beyond Arleigh Burke destroyers that have hit their limits on ...
The U.S. Navy’s most advanced stealth ships don’t look—or fight—like anything that came before them. In this episode, we take you inside the Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship and the ...
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 Navy commissioned its newest ship, the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Pierre (LCS 38) in a ceremony held ...
The Independence-variant littoral combat ship Savannah conducts routine underway operations in the South China Sea, Dec. 6, 2024. (Naval Air Crewman Second Class John Rabbat/Navy) Shipbuilder Austal ...
She’s been built. She’s passed her sea trials. And Saturday (Nov. 15, 2025) at 10am CT, the USS Pierre (LCS 38) will ...
Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship to the Navy Friday, the shipbuilder announced. Future USS Pierre (LCS-38), the second U.S. ship to be named after South Dakota’s ...
The following is the Nov. 15, 2025, commissioning ceremony for Littoral Combat Ship USS Pierre (LCS-38) in Panama City, Fla.  From the Navy Littoral Combat Ship USS Pierre (LCS-38) is the 19th, and ...
Several U.S. naval ships are capable of reaching record-breaking speeds. As of this writing, the fastest U.S. Navy ship still in service is the Freedom-class littoral combat ship (LCS). Officially, it ...