Navys littoral combat ship.
Trimaran littoral ship. The General Dynamics LCS is a far different ship to the Lockheed Martin LCS with the secret to its remarkable speed and agility being the aluminium trimaran. Navy awarded a final design contract for the Littoral Combat Ship LCS to Bath Iron Works. Impossible Engineering Thursdays at 98cThe new Littoral Combat Ships like the USS Independence use a trimaran design for greater speed agility and stabi.
Navy is close to receiving its 21st Littoral Combat Ship. The ship is a trimaran design with a wide beam above the waterline that supports a larger flight deck than those of the Navys much larger destroyers and cruisers as well as a large hangar and a similarly large mission bay below. Navy has approved funding for the construction of a second General Dynamics trimaran version of Littoral Combat Ship LCS featuring an innovative high-speed trimaran.
Austal designed the seaframe and built the 418 foot aluminum trimaran ship. USS Freedom the lead monohull LCS will follow her cousin into retirement in. Versatile Littoral Combat Ship LCS Austal has engineered a seaframe design that breaks the bounds of naval convention.
Littoral Combat Ship LCS Austals Independence variant Littoral Combat Ship LCS developed for the US Navy is a high-speed agile multi-mission combatant. The INDEPENDENCE variant LCS is an aluminum Stabilized Slender Trimaran ship and the FREEDOM variant LCS is a steel Double Chine. Austal delivered its 12th trimaran LCS to the US Navy on June 29th.
Developed at the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan the littoral combat ship was supposed to be a fast agile alternative to traditional Navy combat vessels operating close to shore. One is built in Wisconsin by Lockheed Martin teamed with Fincantieris Marinette Marine. December 21 2006 The US.
USS Independence the lead vessel in the trimaran subclass will decommission in July. Now the sailing branch needs to figure out exactly what to do with the long-delayed much-maligned warships. The Littoral Combat Ship is the Navys newest class of warship.