The Navy is upgrading littoral combat ships to fight drones
The USS Indianapolis is the first Freedom-class littoral combat ship to be modified to fire Hellfire missiles meant to take ...
Littoral Combat Ship Can Now Rapidly Shoot Down Aerial Drones With Hellfire Missiles
The U.S. Navy carried out a crash program last year to enable Freedom class littoral combat ships (LCS) armed with radar-guided AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missiles to fire those weapons against ...
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Disparaged, discontinued...and indispensable? Littoral combat ships take on real-world ops
The Navy may have capped its fleet of much-anticipated— and much-maligned —littoral combat ships at 28 for now, but their ...
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Lockheed's Unit Secures a Contract to Aid AEGIS Combat System
Lockheed Martin Corporation’s LMT unit, Rotary and Mission Systems, recently clinched a modification contract involving the ...
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Littoral Combat Ships are Breaking Apart at Sea
Independence class Littoral Combat Ships are suffering hull cracking in multiple locations along the hull. But that is just ...
Red Sea Attacks Are Testing Combat Information Centers Aboard U.S. Navy Warships Like Never Before
The Combat Information Center (CIC) is the nerve center and tactical brain of a U.S. Navy surface combatant. With this in ...
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The D Brief: Gaza ceasefire?; House intel chair, fired; INDOPACOM’s gen-AI test; Navy’s ‘embarrassing’ laser effort; And a bit more.
The honorees are three decorated war heroes and an Obama-era Navy secretary noted for his own propensity to flout the policy, ...
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Navy Identifies First Destroyer to Receive Full Set of DDG MOD 2.0 Upgrades
USS Sterett (DDG-104) will be the first destroyer to receive all electronic warfare, radar and combat system upgrades under ...
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Navy Introduces C-UAS Capabilities To LCS Ship During Red Sea Operations
The Navy last summer introduced a software change to a surface-to-surface missile package aboard one of its Littoral Combat ...
Storied Marine infantry battalion to be transformed into Littoral Combat Team
Battalion, 4th Marines was captured in World War II and reforged from the Marine Corps' first Raider units. Now it will ...