USS Augusta Is the U.S. Navy’s Latest Littoral Combat Ship, Two More of Its Class Coming

Depending on how and what they're used for, the U.S. Navy’s most important assets, its ships, fall into different categories. One of the most visible, even from the shores of both America and other nations, are the so-called Littoral Combat Ships (LCS). We're generally speaking about ships smaller than we're used to, deployed for, as the name says, military operations near shores. The American (continue reading...)