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 Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was sold as a quick, agile surface combatant for coastal missions drug interdiction, counter-mine work, and hunting submarines close to shore. Built ...

Time to start calling the Independence Class a surveillance frigate. In all the debate over the Navy’s battered and largely derided Littoral Combat Ship concept, the Independence Class LCS has been ...