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SAN DIEGO (CNS) - The littoral combat ship USS Freedom returned Monday to its home port of San Diego, completing its maiden deployment. The Freedom, a new style agile vessel designed to fight in ...

USS Freedom, a $537 million warship commissioned in Milwaukee less than 13 years ago, is headed into the mothball fleet as the U.S. Navy faces budgetary constraints and changing global threats. The ...

SINGAPORE — There is little doubt about what is the star of the show at this year’s International Maritime and Defense Exhibition (Imdex) Asia 2013 – the buzz is clearly all about the first Littoral ...

The Navy is currently investigating a potential class-wide design flaw in its $500 million Freedom-class littoral combat ships that would require an aggressive engineering fix to address, Defense News ...

Then, in July 2016, the USS Freedom, one of the U.S. Navy’s littoral combat ships (LCS), sailed off to participate in the world’s largest naval exercise, RIMPAC. The LCS class was promised as a naval ...

As tugs bring home the newly-broken Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship, USS Detroit (LCS 7), it is time for the U.S. Navy to declare the Freedom class Littoral Combat Ship an irredeemable failure.

Nov. 4, 2008, The USS Freedom (LCS 1) berths in Milwaukee harbor preparing for her commissioning on Nov. 8. The USS Freedom (LCS 1) is the first of two littoral combat ships being produced for the ...

Washington — The U.S. Navy is proposing to retire the USS Detroit just over five years after its commissioning in 2016, as well as eight other Freedom-class littoral combat ships. The USS Detroit, or ...

American flags lined Lagoon Drive leading into Milwaukee's Veterans Park Thursday morning ahead of the Saturday commissioning ceremony for the USS Beloit. The future USS Beloit (LCS 29) is the U.S.