Photos: Riding aboard the Navy's new littoral combat ship

Rear view of the USS Kansas City.
Ted Soqui for Insider
We went on board the Kansas City LCS 22, an Independence-Class Littoral combat ship, in San Diego.
The littoral combat ship is designed to move "out of the brown, into the blue" - close to the shoreline and out in the deep blue sea.
It's a nimble ship, with a modular design, but it's also controversial.See more stories on Insider's business page.
The U.S. Navy has just unveiled one of its latest ships: the Kansas City LCS 22, an Independen