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Navy finally finds something the LCS is good at: Stopping drug smuggling
Littoral Combat Ships are fast, have an embarked helicopter and other equipment that make them good at catching drug ...
Sub Brief on MSN6d
Inside The FASTEST Combat Ship In The US Navy
In this comprehensive lecture, I dive deep into the Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) - high-speed trimaran ...
Sam Eckholm on MSN10d
Exploring the US Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship: A $500 Million Masterpiece
Step inside one of the US Navy's most advanced ships—the $500 million Littoral Combat Ship. With cutting-edge technology and ...
The National Interest10d
The Democratization of Sea Warfare
Damaging such a lightweight vessel is no great feat.
Military Times20d
US Navy warship on first deployment makes two drug busts in 72 hours
The Freedom-class littoral combat ship Minneapolis-Saint Paul departs on March 26 on her maiden deployment. (Brandon J. Vinson/U.S.Navy) Two alleged drug smuggling operations were brought to a ...
KERA News19d
USS Fort Worth may be decommissioned, according to Navy letter
The Fort Worth is the third version of the littoral combat ship series, a fast, agile lightweight ship designed to operate close to shore in shallow water. Gordon England, Navy secretary for ...
Yahoo17d
Navy finally finds something the LCS is good at: Stopping drug smuggling
USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, a Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship, made two drug busts within 72 hours, seizing more than $9.5 million of cocaine and roughly $2.8 million of marijuana.