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What It Looks Like When A Navy Ship Does A Donut
This is the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) U.S.S. Independence throwing down the sickest of donuts off the San Diego coast.It's too bad donuts don't translate to combat serviceability,...
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Here's Everything That's Needed To Run The Navy's Failed 'Ship Of The Future'
The Littoral Combat System was one of the Navy's most significant modernization efforts. The LCS was a push to replace dozens of vessels with next-generation ships capable of fighting off submarines,...
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The Navy's $34 Billion 'Ship Of The Future' Will Be Modified, If Not Replaced
After authorizing construction of at least 20 littoral combat ships, the Navy may soon dramatically change course on its decade-long, $34 billion dollar experiment to build a relatively inexpensive...
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The Pentagon's 'Ship Of The Future' Is In Even More Trouble
A new Congressional report suggests the Pentagon may face further scrutiny over its direction to issue no new contracts for the controversial Littoral Combat Ship program beyond 32 ships.The August...
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Navy Reveals Expensive Upgrades For The Boondoggle Ship That Has Already Cost...
The Navy is surging forward with plans to build a new, more lethal Littoral Combat Ship variant engineered with a host of new technologies, weapons and systems to begin procurement by 2019, service...
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The US Navy wants to send more destroyers to the Pacific Ocean
US Navy leaders' plans to forward deploy two more destroyers to Japan and base another attack submarine in Guam appear to be part of a new maritime strategy expected to be released by the Navy next...
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Here's the Navy's troubled plan for rescuing its failed 'ship-of-the-future'
When former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel paused littoral combat ship contract negotiations in 2014 to look at alternatives to the vessel, some thought it portended the early end of a ship maligned for...
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The US is deploying 2 of its troubled 'ships of the future' to Singapore...
The US will start deploying two of its once-highly touted "ships-of-the-future" to Singapore starting in 2016, IHS Jane's 360 reports. By 2016, the US Navy plans to permanently station and operate two...
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The Navy's Harpoon missiles might get a huge upgrade
Boeing is trying to sell the Navy an upgraded anti-ship and land attack weapon designed to double the range of the service’s existing Harpoon.The Harpoon Next-Generation is a sea-skimming land,...
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Here's the incredible way some warships are launched into water for the first...
Until the middle of the 19th century, ships were almost always launched stern first, the way they had been for thousands of years. But as technology improved, ships grew in size, and the space...
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The Navy's new $362 million ship needed a tow to get home
The USS Milwaukee, an advanced littoral combat ship and the most recent vessel launched by the U.S. Navy, lasted less than three weeks in the water before a problem involving metal filings in its...
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This is why the US Navy's new $362 million ship broke down
On Friday, the US Navy's new $362 million ship broke down and had to be towed back to port after only three weeks in service.The USS Milwaukee, commissioned on November 21, is an advanced littoral...
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The Pentagon and the Navy are fighting over a $23 billion combat ship
The fight between the Defense Department and the Navy over the service's $23 billion Littoral Combat Ship program is heating up just as the Pentagon prepares to release its budget for the next fiscal...
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Here's how the Pentagon wasted $33 billion last year
The U.S. Defense Department could save itself a cool $33 billion if Pentagon leaders took a firmer hand with wasteful programs and imposed some basic budget discipline, according to a new think-tank...
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The Navy's ship-of-the-future is getting an upgrade against Russian and...
The Navy is developing lighter-weight anti-submarine technology designed to better enable its Littoral Combat Ship to track, locate and destroy enemy submarines – all while recognizing potential rivals...
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A fourth US Navy littoral combat ship has broken down in the span of a year
The littoral combat ship USS Coronado is returning to Pearl Harbor from the Western Pacific after experiencing an engineering casualty earlier Tuesday, officials with the Navy's Third Fleet...
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The US Navy's newest combat ships keep breaking down
America's Littoral Combat Ship fleet is in trouble -- and Lockheed Martin and Austal have only themselves to blame for it.The Littoral Combat Ship -- better known as the "LCS" or more recently, the...
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John McCain blasts the Navy's newest warships in a report on Pentagon waste
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain is blasting the Navy's expensive new warships that have been plagued by engine problems and have yet to demonstrate key...
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The Pentagon got caught trying to hide embarrassing cost overruns on Navy ships
If the data you need to release to the public is potentially embarrassing, there's always classification review to the rescue.The US Government Accountability Office deleted details of cost overruns on...
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'They pulled that ship out of their asses': White House orders another Navy...
In an abrupt move, the White House has reportedly stepped in to include an extra Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) to the US Navy's 2018 budget, one day after the budget was released."They pulled that ship...
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