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‘Ill-suited to combat any naval threats’: The US Navy’s littoral combat ship was never built to fight

The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program was intended to usher in a new type of lightweight, affordable ship for the U.S. Navy that could operate in shallow waters and combat small-scale threats. We ...
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The last ‘little crappy ship’: What’s the future for the US Navy’s troubled LCS?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The future USS Cleveland (LCS 31) arrives in Cleveland, Ohio, May 9, 2026, ahead of its commissioning ceremony. - U.S. Navy The US ...
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Littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth decommissioned in San Diego

USS Fort Worth was decommissioned Wednesday during a ceremony at Naval Base San Diego. The removal of the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship from the fleet comes less than 14 years after it was ...
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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 ...