The U.S. Navy retired its last Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships this week in Bahrain, ending a legacy of over three ...

After decades of setbacks and early retirements, the Navy’s most ridiculed ship is finally doing its job: hunting mines and ...

Shipbuilder Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy on Friday, marking the end of a construction phase that's lasted 15 years. The Alabama-based Austal ...

The U.S. Navy plans to make six Littoral Combat Ships (LCSs), two Independence class vessels and four Freedom class vessels, available for sale through its Foreign Military Sales (FMS) program in the ...

The final Independence-class LCS will now be retooled for mine warfare, and the ships may finally serve a helpful purpose, replacing aging minesweepers. Last week, Austal USA delivered the 19th and ...

Sailors at Naval Support Activity Bahrain bid farewell to the last of their wooden-hulled mine hunting ships in a handoff to ...

The USS Kingsville, one of the last Independence-class littoral combat ships built for the Navy, has successfully completed acceptance trials and will become homeported in San Diego later this year.

Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) were supposed to have enhanced the U.S. Navy’s ability to engage smaller targets with a range of mission-oriented weapons packages. Indeed, the ships were celebrated as a ...

The USS Santa Barbara became the latest Independence-class littoral combat ship put into service, following its weekend commissioning by the Navy. Santa Barbara is the third Navy ship to bear the name ...

Austal USA celebrated the symbolic keel-laying Friday on what likely will be the last Littoral Combat Ship to enter U.S. Navy service, the beginning of the end for an ambitious, troubled, ...

Summary and Key Points: In the lead-up to WWII, President Franklin D. Roosevelt recognized the need to expand U.S. naval air power. With limited resources and the urgency of war,... Summary and Key ...