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Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program: Evolution & future role

The US Navy doesn’t build warships to be cautionary tales. Yet the Littoral Combat Ship program has become exactly that — a fascinating, expensive, and deeply instructive lesson in the gap between ...
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 ...
WRAL

USS Milwaukee fires missiles off the Virginia coast, kicks off testing of missile module program

The USS Milwaukee fired four longbow hellfire missiles that hit fast inshore attack craft targets off the Coast of Virginia in a first for the program this month. The USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) is a ...