MAYPORT, Fla. - The Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) was delivered to the fleet on time after completing a Selected Restricted.
On Friday, the city of Mobile will roll out a “Tardy Gras” parade celebrating a rare convergence: A U.S. Navy ship built in a city, with the name of that city, being commissioned in that city.
General Dynamics Mission Systems will support combat systems and C5I integration on Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships.
General Dynamics Mission Systems is providing additional engineering and technical services for the
Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) programme, under a $17.37 million contract from the US Naval Surface Warfare Center.
The company will support combat systems and command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C5I) work, as well as hull, mechanical and electrical equipment, components, software, training and equipment for the Austal-built
Independence LCS variant.
Work under this contract is expected to be completed by May 2026, the DoD announced on 4 May.
According to Shephard Defence Insight, twelve
USS Gabrielle Giffords fired the Naval Strike Missile on 19 March. (Photo: USN)
Naval Strike Missile is equipping Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ships for the USN.
The
Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) USS
Gabrielle Giffords has successfully launched the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) in a shipboard operational testing and evaluation exercise, the USN announced on 30 March.
‘The successful missile shoot [on 19 March] demonstrates value for long-range anti-ship cruise missiles aboard LCS,’ the USN claimed.
NSM is a long-range precision strike weapon that flies at sea-skimming altitude, has a terrain-following capability and uses an advanced seeker for precise targeting.
NSM was fired from an LCS in 2014 at the Point Mugu test range in California.
Surface ship readiness continues to struggle, US Navy inspections show March 3
The destroyer Pinckney operate in the Caribbean. Maintenance of surface ships suffered in 2020, a new report shows. (MC3 Erick Parsons/U.S. Navy) WASHINGTON The U.S. Navy’s surface fleet continues to struggle to keep its ships adequately maintained, according to the Board of Inspection and Survey, an entity responsible for monitoring the condition of the service’s ships. The surface fleet was scored as “degraded” in more than half of the “functional areas” scored by the famously invasive INSURV inspectors, with 11 of 21 being so designated, according to the annual unclassified report to Congress. Those areas include main propulsion systems; electrical systems; damage-control systems; anti-submarine warfare systems; and for the second year in a row, the Aegis weapons system, which serves as the combat brain of the Navy’s cruisers and destroyers.