Littoral Combat Ships. Relating Performance to Mission Package Inventories, Homeports, and Installation Sites

Abstract

In June 2005, workers at the Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, laid the keel for the USS Freedom, the Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship. The LCS constitutes a new class of fast, agile, and networked warships designed to overcome threats in shallow waters posed by mines, diesel-electric submarines, fast-attack craft, and fast inshore attack craft. LCSs will be key components in a proposed family of next generation surface combatants that also includes the much larger DDG-1000 destroyer and a future CG(X) cruiser. LCSs will be able to deploy independently to overseas littoral regions; remain on station for extended periods of time, either with a carrier strike group or an expeditionary strike group or through a forward-basing arrangement; operate independently and/or with other LCS units; and be replenished while under way.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2007
Accession Number
ADA469276

Entities

People

  • Brien Alkire
  • Bryce Mason
  • Gordon Y. Lee
  • James Dryden
  • John F. Schank
  • John L. Birkler
  • Lisa Dolan
  • Michael Hayes

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Boats
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Linear Programming
  • Littoral Combat Ships
  • Logistics
  • Military Applications
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Naval Operations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Navy
  • Security Personnel
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.
  • Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering.