U.S., India and Japan Participating in Annual Malabar Exercise in Bay of Bengal
The U.S., Indian and Japanese navies are in the middle of the Malabar 2015 exercise, this year in Chennai, India, on…
LCS Fort Worth Integrates Fire Scout UAV, RHIBs Into Bilateral Exercises For First Time
The Navy’s summer series of bilateral exercises in the Pacific gave the Littoral Combat Ship USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) a chance to…
USS Fort Worth Completes Its First CARAT Exercise with Philippines
The Littoral Combat Ship USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) completed its first-ever Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Philippines, ahead of…
Navy Assessment: LCS Fort Worth Needed 90 Percent Less Maintenance than Freedom in First 3 Months of Deployment
The Littoral Combat Ship USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) is six months into its 16-month deployment and requiring an order of…
Two Littoral Combat Ships to Deploy to Singapore Next Year, Four by 2017
The U.S. Navy will begin a permanent presence of two Littoral Combat Ships in Singapore next year with four planned…
USS Fort Worth Successfully Tested Overseas Maintenance Outside of Singapore Hub
The second Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) has proven so much more reliable than the first that the Navy has…
LCS Fort Worth Joins Airliner Search
The Navy’s forward deployed Littoral Combat Ship USS Fort Worth (LCS-3) has joined in the search for the missing Air…
USS Fort Worth LCS Chops to 7th Fleet
The Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1) USS Forth Worth (LCS-3) entered the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in the…
Navy Zeroes Out Fire Scout Buy, Future of Program Unclear
The Navy has abandoned its plans to buy 17 additional Northrop Grumman Fire Scout rotary wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)…
Lockheed Outlines Freedom-Class Improvements
Follow-on versions of the Lockheed Martin Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) will incorporate numerous improvements based on lessons from operational…