Maybe it's the trimaran's festive appearance that put off the scrambled-egg crowd, but one still wonders why the U.S. Navy took so long to adapt this 4,000-year-old Polynesian technology to its combat ...

Littoral Combat Ship Independence (LCS 2) during trials. LCSs are now forward deployed in the Western Pacific - Dennis Griggs/US Navy The Chinese navy, currently the biggest in the world by count of ...

Picture this: a colossal warship worth half a billion dollars facing down 40-foot waves that would turn most vessels into twisted metal. While Mother Nature unleashes her fury, this engineering marvel ...

NORFOLK -- The maiden voyage for the Littoral Combat Ship USS Independence ends Wednesday when she arrives at Naval Station Norfolk. She left Mobile, Alabama on March 26 and made stops inKey West and ...

With the world's largest and most powerful fleet of aircraft carriers, destroyers and cruisers, the U.S. Navy absolutely dominates the deep water. But not so much in shallow waters -- the so-called ...

The US Navy wants 55 of these littoral vessels and Austal has an order for two catamaran troop carriers. If the US Navy does buy/build all of littoral and troop carriers by 2014, Austral will have ...

Austal USA held a keel laying ceremony on Friday for the last trimaran-hull littoral combat ship that will be based in San Diego. The future USS Pierre, named for the capitol of South Dakota, will be ...

December 21, 2006 The U.S. Navy has approved funding for the construction of a second General Dynamics trimaran version of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) featuring an innovative, high-speed trimaran hull.

The Chinese navy, currently the biggest in the world by count of warships, just keeps growing. Meanwhile the US Navy – the world’s second most numerous fleet – is struggling to grow at all, to say ...