The Navy has retired most of its dedicated minesweeping vessels—but the Littoral Combat Ship has the same capabilities and ...

The US Navy appears to believe that its Littoral Combat Ships are not up to the task of taking on Iranian naval mines.

The U.S. Navy decommissioned its only four minesweepers in the Middle East last year, but still maintains other countermine ...

Two of three Littoral Combat Ships assigned to Middle Eastern minesweeping duties have made another move in the opposite direction.

Images of retired U.S. Navy minesweepers being transported up the Delaware Bay sparked online rumors that the United States no longer has mine-clearing capability, but the Navy has already ...

Littoral Combat Ships USS Tulsa (LCS-16) and USS Santa Barbara (LCS-32) were docked Sunday in Malaysia, well away from the ships’ homeport Naval Support Activity Bahrain. The two Independence-variant ...

The littoral combat ship returned to its homeport Wednesday following an eight-month deployment that included a rare visit to ...

Four Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships stationed in Bahrain were decommissioned in 2025 after each serving for over 30 ...

Two Independence-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) of the U.S. Navy, “USS Tulsa” and “USS Santa Barbara,” equipped for mine ...

SAN DIEGO – Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Cincinnati (LCS 20) arrived at its San Diego homeport following ...

The US Navy Littoral Combat Ships USS Tulsa and USS Santa Barbara were recently spotted in Malaysia’s Penang amid ongoing Iranian attacks in the Strait of Hormuz ...