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Navy’s $700 million warship gamble exposed as LCS program shrinks after cost overruns and mechanical failures

The Navy’s ambitious plan for a new fleet of fast, modular warships spiraled as the Littoral Combat Ship program faced ...
CNN

The last ‘little crappy ship’: What’s the future for the US Navy’s troubled LCS?

“An experiment that didn’t work,” said another. And an expensive one. The price of the program is pegged at $60 billion, but a 2023 report from the investigative journalism site ProPublica said the ...
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Missing the Big Picture on the Littoral Combat Ship

The Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), or frigates (FF) as future variants of the LCS will be called, have been a ripe subject for hyperbole and strawmen in contemporary debates over military acquisition ...
Reuters

INTERVIEW-U.S. Navy secretary defends new warship program

WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) - U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus defended the embattled $34 billion Littoral Combat Ship program on Wednesday and said the ability to reconfigure the ships to carry out ...
Yahoo

US Navy commissions final littoral combat ship after years of issues

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS Cleveland is commissioned in a ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, May 16, 2026. (MCS3 Jasmin ...
USNI

VIDEO: Navy’s Final Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship Joins the Fleet

USS Cleveland (LCS-31) sits pierside during the ship’s commissioning ceremony in Cleveland, Ohio, May 16, 2026. US Navy photo The Navy commissioned the final Littoral Combat Ship on Saturday in ...
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The last ‘little crappy ship’: What’s the future for the US Navy’s troubled LCS?

(CNN) — The US Navy commissioned the last of its 35 littoral combat ships, the USS Cleveland, earlier this month at a pier in its namesake Ohio city. “Steel. Strength. Power,” acting Secretary of the ...