WASHINGTON — This time it's USS Freedom. In yet another blow for its seemingly perpetually-troubled littoral combat ship program, the US Navy revealed Sunday that one of two main propulsion diesel ...
The Navy is currently investigating a potential class-wide design flaw in its $500 million Freedom-class littoral combat ships that would require an aggressive engineering fix to address, Defense News ...
The littoral combat ship USS Freedom will need an engine rebuild or replacement after a seawater leak resulted in significant damage, Navy officials said. The Freedom is the third ship in the Freedom ...
The Littoral Combat Ship USS Freedom (LCS-1) is sidelined in San Diego, Calif. for repairs after Navy inspectors found extensive damage in one of its two main propulsion diesel engines, Navy officials ...
The U.S. Navy has fired a second littoral combat ship commander in the space of one year, the latest in connection with engine damage the ship sustained this summer. Cmdr. Michael R. Wohnhaas, ...
USS Detroit (LCS-7) transits the Caribbean Sea. Detroit is deployed to the U.S. Southern Command area of responsibility to support Joint Interagency Task Force South’s mission. Sept. 12, 2020. US Navy ...
The U.S. Navy is retiring every active Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) it has… while simultaneously finishing six brand-new ships of the same class. On the surface, that sounds like déjà vu ...