LCS 10 successfully completes acceptance trials
NOVEMBER 22, 2016 — Naval Sea Systems Command reports that future USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) successfully completed its acceptance trials Nov. 18. The trials consisted of a series of in-port and
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Next two LCS to be named to honor their shipyard cities
SEPTEMBER 22, 2016 — In a ceremony at the Russell Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, today, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced that the next Freedom and Independence variant Littoral
VIDEO: Lockheed Martin LCS team launches another
SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 —The Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT)-led LCS industry team launched the thirteenth Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Wichita, into the Menominee River at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard
Engineering stand down, retraining for LCS crews
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016 — Following the recent engineering casualty on the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1), Commander, Naval Surface Forces, Vice Adm. Tom Rowden, ordered an engineering stand down for
Another LCS experiences an engineering casualty
AUGUST 30, 2016 — The USS Coronado (LCS 4) is headed back to Pearl Harbor after experiencing an engineering casualty when three days out from Hawaii headed for Singapore, reports the U.S.
Navy investigates LCS 1 main propulsion diesel casualty
AUGUST 29, 2016 — Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CNSP) is investigating a July 11 incident in which the Navy’s first littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) experienced a
VIDEO: LCS 4 executes live fire test of Harpoon missile
JULY 28, 2016 — USS Coronado (LCS 4), an Independence variant LCS built by shipbuilder Austal USA, successfully executed the first live fire over-the-horizon missile test using a Harpoon Block IC missile
Austal-built LCS 6 completes shock trials
JULY 20, 2016 —Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) reports that the Independence variant Littoral Combat Ship USS Jackson (LCS 6) has successfully completed Full Ship Shock Trials (FSST) off the coast of
Lockheed Martin team lays keel for LCS 17
JULY 19, 2016 —The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-led industry team yesterday officially laid the keel for the U.S. Navy’s 17th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the future USS Indianapolis, in a ceremony at
Shock test prep costs put dent in Austal profits
JULY 5, 2016 — The good news from Austal is that there have been “favorable preliminary results” from the three Full Scale Shock Trials of LCS 6 — the first aluminum trimaran