The first ship of this class to be used by the Navy HSV-1 Joint Venture proved its military mettle during the 2003 invasion of Iraq as a forward staging platform for Marine Fleet Anti-Terrorism and United States Navy SEAL SEa Air Land teams in the shallow waters of Umm Qasr Iraq.

Us navy trimaran littoral combat ship. She has a displacement of 2176 tons light 2784 tons full and 608 tons deadweight. Critics of the United States Navys Littoral Combat Ships LCS have argued it is a platform seeking a problem rather than addressing one and that is why less than fifteen years after entering service the first two of the warships will be retired later this year. Navy awarded a final design contract for the Littoral Combat Ship LCS to Bath Iron Works.

Austal designed the seaframe and built the 418 foot aluminum trimaran ship. In a ceremony earlier this month the United States Navy commissioned the latest Independence -variant littoral combat ship LCS USS Oakland LCS 24. The Navys current rush to add ship-killing Naval Strike Missiles to the littoral combat ship fleet may offer a boost to conventional lethality but these days surveillance data and the more.

In December 2010 Austal now as. The ship is 1274 m long with a beam of 316 m and a draft of 396 m. She is the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the concept of independence.

USS Independence LCS-2 is the lead ship of the Independence -class of littoral combat ships. CNN A bottle of wine was broken across a mass of gray steel in Mobile Alabama on Saturday as the United States Navy unveiled the only ship in. Navy leaders Oakland city officials and a socially distanced audience attended the event for the third ship in naval service to be named in honor of the California city.

The design was produced by the General Dynamics consortium for the Navys LCS program and competes with the Lockheed Martin designed Freedom variant. The Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship is based on a trimaran hull design. The trimaran construction is unique to the US Navy and lends the Independence variant some unique capabilities and seakeeping characteristics.

The first order for a prototype was awarded to the BIW and Austal LCS team in October 2005 and a contract for a second BIW and Austal LCS was awarded by the Navy in May 2009. Rare Look Inside a United States Navy Independence Class Littoral Combat ShipThis HD video provides a somewhat brief but interesting look inside one of the U. Impossible Engineering Thursdays at 98cThe new Littoral Combat Ships like the USS Independence use a trimaran design for greater speed agility and stabi.