Disparaged, discontinued...and indispensable? Littoral combat ships take on real-world ops

The Navy may have capped its fleet of much-anticipated—and much-maligned—littoral combat ships at 28 for now, but their commanders haven’t stopped trying to squeeze every last ounce of capability out of them.LCSs deployed to the Persian Gulf and the waters off of South America in the past year, the commodore of Littoral Combat Ship Squadron 2 told an audience at the Surface Navy Association’s annual symposium on Wednesday, including a 22-month deployment executed by two c