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 ...

Cmdr. Adam Ochs was relieved of command of the USS Santa Barbara, a littoral combat ship deployed to the Navy's 5th Fleet ...

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

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 ...

The Fastest Ship in the US Navy I visited the USS Marinette, the 13th Freedom-class littoral combat ship (LCS), known as ...

July 28, 2025: U.S. Navy is allowing the Marine Corps to have several trimaran Independence class Littoral Combat Ships/LCS ships as Littoral Explosive Ordnance Neutralization/LEON vessels. In plant ...

Congressional support for the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship appears to be waning even further after an influential U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee proposed slowing down the pace of production ...

Long delays to get parts for F/A-18 fighters and Virginia-class submarines have forced maintainers to strip from other ...

The MV Ocean Trader, a floating barracks, helicopter base and command center for special ops forces, is currently operating ...

The LCS demonstrated it could not replace the old Perry class frigates or be of much use at all. Without the mission modules, the LCS could only be used as a coastal patrol ship that was only able to ...