Lockheed Martin’s Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) are critical tools helping the U.S. Navy achieve its missions. Designed for operations in the littorals – or areas close to a coast – the resilient and flexible warships are designed from the bottom up to affordably take on new capabilities with speed, strength and versatility.
Here are a few examples of what this capable ship does while on deployment.
USS Little Rock supports multinational Operation Martillo
USS Detroit successfully completes joint exercise with USS Gridley
USS Detroit (LCS 7) also deployed to support Operation Martillo.
During deployment, USS Detroit’s crew completed a joint exercise of division tactics and gunnery exercises with Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Gridley.
Division tactics are a series of tactical shipboard movements directed by a designated junior officer, acting in the position of commanding officer. This gives junior officers experience handling their own ships and working closely with other vessels.
USS Detroit sinks navigation hazard
While on deployment, USS Detroit had a chance to prove LCS packs a punch when it sunk an abandoned vessel posing a hazard to navigation in the western Atlantic.
The missiles onboard LCS are part of a surface warfare capability package that can be added to LCS. With 40% reconfigurable hull space, LCS can defeat today’s threats and evolve to meet future threats.
In addition to this show of firepower, LCS 7 completed drug interdiction operations in the Caribbean Sea. Rear Adm. Don Gabrielson, Commander U.S. 4th Fleet, remarked, “Detroit did a fantastic job while deployed, sending strong messages to our partners and our adversaries that the United States Navy operates globally and in all conditions.”
