The Pentagon’s 2023 budget proposal calls for retiring 24 ships to make way for more expensive vessels. All nine of the Navy’s Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) would be among those scrapped.   The LCS program has been plagued with issues. The most serious are failures in the population system. Last year, a major defect was … Continue reading Pentagon Seeks to Scrap Problematic Littoral Combat Ships in 2023