First LCS completes acceptance trials

The US Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), USS Freedom (LCS 1), successfully conducted its second and final round of acceptance trials last month. The 378-foot Freedom, designed and built by a Lockheed Martin-led industry team, conducted the acceptance trials off the Virginia coast. The trials, which were a coordinated ...

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