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The littoral combat ship is the US Navy’s $100,000,000,000 mistake it can’t shake

The Littoral Combat Ship was pitched to Congress as an affordable, mission-swapping warship at $220 million per hull. The ...
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The last ‘little crappy ship’: What’s the future for the US Navy’s troubled LCS?

“An experiment that didn’t work,” said another. And an expensive one. The price of the program is pegged at $60 billion, but a 2023 report from the investigative journalism site ProPublica said the ...
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Missing the Big Picture on the Littoral Combat Ship

The Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), or frigates (FF) as future variants of the LCS will be called, have been a ripe subject for hyperbole and strawmen in contemporary debates over military acquisition ...
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The last 'little crappy ship': What's the future for the US Navy's troubled LCS?

The US Navy commissioned the last of its 35 littoral combat ships, the USS Cleveland, earlier this month at a pier in its namesake Ohio city. “Steel. Strength. Power,” acting Secretary of the Navy ...