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  1. Independence-class littoral combat ship

    The Independence class is a class of littoral combat ships built for the United States Navy.. The hull design evolved from a project at Austal to design a high speed, 40-knot-cruise ship. That hull design evolved into the high-speed trimaran ferry HSC Benchijigua Express and the Independence class was then proposed by General Dynamics and Austal as a contender for Navy plans to build a fleet ...

  2. USS Independence (LCS-2)

    USS Independence (LCS-2) is the lead ship of the Independence-class of littoral combat ships.She is the sixth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the concept of independence.The design was produced by the General Dynamics consortium for the Navy's LCS program, and competes with the Lockheed Martin designed Freedom variant.. Independence, delivered to the Navy at the end of 2009, was ...

  3. Littoral Combat Ship Class

    The Independence Variant . of the LCS Class is a high speed, agile, shallow draft and networked surface ship. The LCS 2 and follow (LCS 4, LCS 6 and LCS 8 etc) are open ocean capable ships, but are designed to defeat growing littoral threats and provide access and dominance in the coastal water battlespace. ... The trimaran construction is ...

  4. Littoral Combat Ship Class

    The LCS class consists of two variants, the Freedom variant and the Independence variant, designed and built by two industry teams. ... The Independence variant is an aluminum trimaran design ...

  5. Navy Quietly Decommissions Littoral Combat Ship Independence

    The 3,000-ton Independence and sister-ship USS Coronado (LCS-4) were the first two Independence-class trimaran ships built to compete for the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship contract.

  6. Littoral Combat Ship

    The Littoral Combat Ship is the Navy's newest class of warship. The INDEPENDENCE variant LCS is an aluminum Stabilized Slender Trimaran ship and the FREEDOM variant LCS is a steel Double Chine Advanced Semi-Planing Monohull ship. LCS Background. Navy war games, fleet experiments and analytic studies conducted after the end of the Cold War and ...

  7. Littoral combat ship

    The U.S. trimaran USS Independence USS Freedom on sea trials in February 2013 before her first deployment. A littoral combat ship (LCS) is either of two classes of relatively small surface vessels designed for near-shore operations by the United States Navy.It was "envisioned to be a networked, agile, stealthy surface combatant capable of defeating anti-access and asymmetric threats in the ...

  8. Austal Pushes Big Missiles For Small Ships: LCS & VLS

    "For the Independence-class LCS, the trimaran design is probably better able to accommodate adding weight in the form of missile launchers higher in the ship," said Bryan Clark, a retired Navy ...

  9. PDF Littoral Combat Ship Fact Sheet

    Size of a Freedom-class variant o Length: 387 ft o Beam: 58 ft o Draft: 13 ft o Independence (Even-numbered hulls, e.g. LCS 2) Constructed by Austal USA. Aluminum trimaran design Assigned to LCSRON 1 in San Diego. Size of an Independence-class variant o Length: 418 ft o Beam: 104 ft o Draft: 14 ft What can an LCS do?

  10. Independence class LCS Littoral Combat Ship US Navy Austal

    The Independence-class design began life at Austal as a platform for a high-speed cruise ship. The principal requirements of that project were speed, stability and passenger comfort, and Austal's team determined that the trimaran hull form offered significant passenger comfort and stability advantages over both a catamaran and a monohull. The ...

  11. Drop 'Littoral Combat': America's 17 Independence Class ...

    Rather than despair over how the Independence Class isn't a conventional frigate and then marginalize it, the Navy needs to let the trimaran surveillance frigate play in the Distributed Maritime ...

  12. Was the US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship a mistake?

    In comparison, the trimaran Independence class "has fewer immediately fatal flaws", with the variant operating in the US Navy's most important area of operations: the Pacific. The Independence class is homeported in San Diego on the west coast, and also undertakes a standing rotational deployment to Sembawang naval facility in Singapore.

  13. Littoral Combat Ship

    The trimaran Independence Class LCS design has been tested thoroughly by the US Navy and shown to provide significant benefits to naval operations, including the largest usable payload volume per ...

  14. U.S. Navy Test-Fires SM-6 Missile From Tiny Littoral Combat Ship

    The trimaran Independence-class has had fewer problems, boasts a large flight deck supporting up to two helicopters, and will begin integrating specialized counter-mine warfare mission packages ...

  15. U.S. Navy Accepts Delivery of 18th Independence-variant LCS

    The LCS class consists of two variants, Freedom and Independence, designed and built by two separate industry teams. The trimaran-hulled Independence-variant team is led by Austal USA (for the even-numbered ships). The monohull Freedom variant is built by a team led by Lockheed Martin (for the odd-numbered ships).

  16. Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships: The Most ...

    The Independence -class LCS, built by General Dynamics and Austal USA, features an aluminum trimaran hull with a slim " stabilized monohull " design intended to achieve a high speed beyond 40 ...

  17. Austal USA lays keel for last LCS, the ship 'that made the company'

    LCS-38, the 19th LCS built in Mobile and the last of the angular trimarans in the Independence class, will become the USS Pierre. When it does so, it'll be greeted by expectations somewhat lower ...

  18. Austal USA Delivers 18th Littoral Combat Ship Destined for Naval Base

    The Independence-class, trimaran-hull warship is 418 feet long and armed with a main gun, anti-aircraft missiles and machine guns, as well as two helicopters.

  19. US Navy rectifies enduring propulsion problem of its LCS

    The US Navy's Independence-class littoral combat ships (LCS) will receive an unlimited supply of water propulsors, shafts and seals.These components are essential to enable a vessel to propel a jet of water for propulsion, allowing the ship to sail. The US Department of Defense (DoD) contracted the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of the LCS programme, Wartsila Defense, at a value of $9 ...

  20. Le Corbusier's triumphant return to Moscow

    The exhibition's curator Jean-Louis Cohen explains that Le Corbusier saw Moscow as "somewhere he could experiment.". Indeed, when the architect was commissioned to construct the famous ...

  21. Moscow Soviet of Workers' and

    March 6, 1920. Delivered: 6 March, 1920. First Published: 1921 in Verbatim Reports of the Plenary Sessions of the Moscow Soviet of Workers', Peasants' and Red Army Deputies, Moscow; Published according to the book. Source: Lenin's Collected Works, 4th English Edition, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1965, Volume 30, page 410-416.

  22. Twenty Years in Underground Russia

    Cecilia Bobrovskaya Twenty Years in Underground Russia: Memoirs of a Rank-and-File Bolshevik. VIII. Moscow. FROM Baku I went to recuperate a little at the estate in Zhiroslavka near Kostroma which I have already mentioned, whose mistress, Elizaveta Kolodeznikova, considered it her mission in life to provide a haven for all tired and homeless ...

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