Shipbuilder Austal USA delivered the final Independence-class littoral combat ship to the U.S. Navy on Friday, marking the end of a construction phase that’s lasted 15 years. The Alabama-based Austal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The USS Pierre littoral combat ship sails into Panama City, Florida. The U.S. Navy commissioned the 19th and final ...

The US Navy has commissioned the USS Pierre, its final Independence-class littoral combat ship, marking the end of a two-decade program that produced some of the service’s fastest and most adaptable ...

USS Pierre — the last of the Navy’s troubled Independence class of littoral combat ships — has passed its sea trials and will be commissioned in San Diego this fall, the Navy says. The Pierre was ...

The USS Pierre, the last Independence-class littoral combat ship the Navy intends to build, was commissioned Saturday at Port Panama City in Florida and will soon sail to San Diego, its permanent home ...

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 ...

February 26, 2025: Last year the U.S. Navy decided to reverse its plan to quickly discard its remaining LCS Littoral Combat Ships and instead upgrade many of them. The only combat an LCS has seen was ...