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The USS Savannah has successfully launched an unmanned aircraft, thereby enhancing the naval operations capabilities.

Textron's Aerosonde uncrewed aircraft system has made its first operational flight from a U.S. Navy littoral combat ship, the company said.

The Navy created its Independence-class ships out of desperation as an interim measure to ensure that its sailors and pilots were better equipped to fight the remainder of World War II. 

The U.S. Navy test-launched a powerful SM-6 hypersonic missile from a container mounted on its smallest type of surface warship: the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS).

A containerized launcher able to fire SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles offers Littoral Combat Ships and other Navy vessels a major firepower boost.

Textron Systems Corporation announced that it has been awarded an initial contract valued at up to $19.5M by the U.S. Navy’s Naval Air Systems Command to provide UAS operational support to two Independence Class LCS and one Freedom Class LCS variants

Austal Team Trimaran LCS Design (click to enlarge)Exploit simplicity, numbers, the pace of technology development in electronics and robotics, and fast reconfiguration. That was the US Navy's idea for the low-end backbone of its future surface combatant fleet. Inspired by successful

US Navy commissioned the future USS Santa Barbara as the newest Independence-variant LCS during a ceremony in Port Hueneme, Calif.

The troubling revelations about the Independence-class littoral combat ships come as the Navy continues to grapple with a class-wide transmission issue in the Freedom-class variants.