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 ...

The U.S. Navy officially decommissioned the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) on July 29, 2026, during a ceremony at Naval Base San Diego after nearly 14 years of service.

The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship program has had one of the most turbulent histories in modern American naval procurement. Conceived in the early 2000s as a revolutionary, fast, and flexible ...

China tracked USS Charleston LCS 18 as it sailed near Sabina Shoal—87 miles from Palawan—amid South China Sea tensions on ...

(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 ...