Many others have argued this case, but now shipbuilder Huntington-Ingalls Industries is making the pitch all on its own: A new “Patrol Frigate” version of its National Security Cutter would be as good ...

Front and rear views of Austal's Littoral Combat Ship -- sans ocean. Image source: Austal USA. America's Littoral Combat Ship fleet is in trouble -- and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and Austal ...

For America's defense contractors, it's all over but the crying -- and for two companies, the cheering. Eight long months the U.S. Navy kept us waiting as it mulled improvements to the much-maligned ...

There's a school of thought that if the Navy had called the littoral combat ship a "light frigate," -- let's say an FFE, and it had started the class with FFE 62, to pick up after the last FFG, the ...

Built sometimes by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT), other times by General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) or Austal (NASDAQOTH: AUTLY), America's Littoral Combat Ship may well be the most derided warship in U.S.

A word to the wise "LCS is not expected to be survivable in high-intensity combat because its design requirements do not require the inclusion of survivability features necessary to conduct sustained ...

Don't look now, but the U.S. Navy's highest profile warship may soon be toast -- a victim of Pentagon cost-cutting. LCS-1 -- America's first Littoral Combat Ship. Source: Wikimedia Commons. It's a ...

The US Navy appears to believe that its Littoral Combat Ships are not up to the task of taking on Iranian naval mines. President Donald Trump has suggested that the Iranian Navy’s ability to deploy ...

The Department of Defense awarded nine separate defense contracts Monday, worth $1.6 billion in total. Among these, two contracts went to General Dynamics and Australian shipbuilder Austal , its ...

Built sometimes by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) , other times by General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) or Austal (NASDAQOTH: AUTLY) , America's Littoral Combat Ship may well be the most derided warship in U.S.