Landing Ship Medium concept. NAVSEA Image. The development of a new landing ship key to the Marines Corps’ island-hopping strategy in the Western Pacific is on hold due to Navy concerns over ...

The Navy’s Medium Landing Ship (LSM) program, previously called the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW) program, envisions procuring a class of 18 to 35 new amphibious ships to support the Marine ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The U.S. Navy is seeking proposals for its Landing Ship Medium program, which one Marine Corps leader called a top priority for the Navy-Marine amphibious team.

Costs for the Navy’s medium landing ship, or LSM, could range from $6.2 billion to as much as $7.8 billion for 18 ships, the CBO said in a report released Thursday.

But the Medium Landing Ship – or LSM in Navy parlance – is two years behind schedule, and costs are rising. The delays and increasing cost aren’t isolated problems – they’re endemic to ...

Three U.S. Navy littoral combat ships sail in formation in the eastern Pacific Ocean in 2019. ... Two newer programs — the Constellation-class frigate and the medium landing ship, ...

Today's US Navy may be poorly equipped to support a landing force, but that wasn't the case decades ago. A unique and little-known ship packed a formidable punch in the Korean and Vietnam wars.

The BALTOPS 25 exercise granted a rare sighting of a Soviet-designed helicopter landing on one of the U.S. Navy’s two Cold ...

Last week, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees espoused sluicing $33.8 billion in one-time supplemental funding into sixteen new U.S. Navy battle-force ships, medium landing ships to ...