Despite the danger of sea mines, experts say that mine clearing has received minimal attention and funding from the U.S. Navy ...

Some military and defense experts argue the Independence-class littoral combat ship equipped with the MCM mission package ...

The Independence-class LCS has been re-adapted for use as a minesweeper, although there are concerns that its aluminum hull might not be ideally suited for that purpose. USS Pierre (LCS-38) departed ...

The current conflict over the Strait of Hormuz seems like an opportunity tailor-made for Navy ships made in Mobile to finally ...

The USS Santa Barbara and USS Tulsa, which are homeported in Bahrain, arrived in Singapore this week.

Two of three Littoral Combat Ships assigned to Middle Eastern minesweeping duties have made another move in the opposite ...

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 appears to believe that its Littoral Combat Ships are not up to the task of taking on Iranian naval mines.

ARABIAN SEA - As the U.S. military increases its naval presence in the Middle East amid heightened tensions with Iran, the USS Tulsa (LCS-16), a Navy ship named for Tulsa, Oklahom ...

The USS Savannah returned to San Diego on Thursday, wrapping up a year-long deployment to the Indo-Pacific that illustrated the ability of littoral combat ships to carry out long patrols by using a ...