{"id":24876,"date":"2020-08-10T20:19:53","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T20:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2020\/08\/10\/us-navy-commissions-another-littoral-combat-ship-amid-renewed-push-to-fix-the-program\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:06:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:06:31","slug":"us-navy-commissions-another-littoral-combat-ship-amid-renewed-push-to-fix-the-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/naval\/2020\/08\/10\/us-navy-commissions-another-littoral-combat-ship-amid-renewed-push-to-fix-the-program\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy commissions another Littoral Combat Ship amid renewed push to fix the program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2013 The U.S. Navy Saturday commissioned its latest littoral combat ship<\/a> amid a top-level push to fix the ship\u2019s nagging reliability issues and forge a path to make the small surface combatants useful in the years ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The monohull Freedom-variant LCS St. Louis was commissioned at a private event in its namesake city, the 22nd LCS and 10th Freedom variant to join the fleet. There will be 35 LCS in the fleet once all are commissioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change is in the wind for LCS once again, which has already seen several shakeups to its system<\/a>. A high-level effort is underway to address problems with its complicated drive train built for high speeds that have limited the ships availability for tasking as well as to finally field its long-delayed mission packages. Mission packages will make the ships either a surface warfare hull, a mine hunter or an antisubmarine ship.<\/p>\n\n\n\t