The Navy Basically Just Admitted That The Littoral Combat Ship Is A Floating Garbage Pile. Three Times a Charm: US Navy Littoral Combat Ship Damaged (Again) By Franz-Stefan Gady The newly built warship sustained a total of three unrelated casualties since its commissioning in September. The littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) steams ahead during a division tactics exercise in support of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Thailand, June … After two years of embarrassing breakdowns in both variants of the embattled Navy Littoral Combat Ship, there are worrying signs that a reliability problem is built into the design. This move is designed to shift away from the Littoral Combat Ship ... hopefully eliminating the problems it is trying to overcome in its current small surface combatant. The U.S. Navy wants to retire four ships of the controversial Littoral Combat Ship class, including one ship that is just six years old. Freedom-class littoral combat ship. “Two ships are going on the West Coast; one ship is going on the East Coast, followed shortly [by a second] in the beginning of ‘20. Littoral failure: Navy hedges bets on high-tech littoral combat ships DoD looks for alternatives to modular ship that are less likely to be cannon fodder. Many improvements to the Freedom class came from the problems experienced by Freedom (LCS-1) on its first deployment including power outages, corroded equipment, and a faulty air compressor. “We’re deploying LCS this year, it’s happening,” Commander of Naval Surface Forces Vice Adm. Richard Brown told reporters. Publicly Released: Sep 25, 2014. Littoral Combat Ship: Navy Complied with Regulations in Accepting Two Lead Ships, but Quality Problems Persisted after Delivery GAO-14-827: Published: Sep 25, 2014. Sean Gallagher - Mar 28, 2014 4:18 pm UTC On paper, the Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS, is the high tech, multipurpose answer to the Navy’s 21st Century needs. Littoral Combat Ship Class - LCS : Description LCS is a fast, agile, mission-focused- platform designed for operation in near-shore environments yet capable of open-ocean operation.