The US Navy has funded the construction of two Littoral Combat Ships (LCS), LCS 22 and LCS 24, by Austal. The company announced the funding on 2 April. The two vessels will be the ninth and tenth ...

MOBILE, Ala (WKRG) — Austal USA delivered the future USS Savannah to the US Navy over the weekend. It is the 14th Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) completed for the Navy, and the ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — The future USS Kansas City (LCS 22) has successfully completed acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico. “I take great pride in how our LCS team has elevated this program to be an ...

We went on board the Kansas City LCS 22, an Independence-Class Littoral combat ship, in San Diego. The littoral combat ship is designed to move "out of the brown, into the blue" - close to the ...

For the second time in less than a week, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus has announced the name of a new littoral combat ship to be built in Austal USA's Mobile shipyard. LCS 22 will be named the USS ...