Here’s What You Need to Remember: The U.S. Navy is fast-tracking a broad effort to arm its fleet of LCS ships with deck-mounted Hellfire weapons, offering new options, ranges and tactics for maritime ...
CORRECTION: A previous version of this post had the incorrect size of the LCS main deck gun. Both variants field a 57mm deck gun, not 76mm. The Navy conducted its first test of a short-range missile ...
An AGM-114L Longbow Hellfire missile launches from the Surface-To-Surface Missile Module (SSMM) aboard Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship USS Montgomery (LCS-8) on May 12, 2022. US Navy Photo ...
Engineering development tests of modified Longbow Hellfire missiles for use on Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) were successfully conducted in June, the U.S. Navy reports. The Longbow Hellfire missile ...
The U.S. Navy has begun realistic testing of short-range surface-to-surface missiles aboard one of its Littoral Combat Ships. The tests are a prerequisite to arming some of the Navy’s LCSs with ...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (UPI) --The U.S. Navy successfully completed a restrained firing test of the Longbow Hellfire missile for the littoral combat ship's surface-to-surface missile module, the sea ...
Should enemy helicopters, surveillance planes or armed drones be maneuvering to attack while circling above a U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship at seemingly unreachable ranges for the ship’s deck-mounted ...