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FREEDOM littoral combat ships (2008-)

Freedom 2010

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
LCS1 Freedom 403 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 2.6.2005 23.9.2006 8.11.2008 in service (2020)
LCS3 Fort Worth 450 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 11.7.2009 4.12.2010 6.8.2012 in service (2020)
LCS5 Milwaukee 465 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 27.10.2011 18.12.2013 21.11.2015 in service (2020)
LCS7 Detroit 467 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 8.11.2012 18.10.2014 22.10.2016 in service (2020)
LCS9 Little Rock 469 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 27.6.2013 18.7.2015 16.12.2017 in service (2020)
LCS11 Sioux City 471 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 19.2.2014 30.1.2016 17.11.2018 in service (2020)
LCS13 Wichita 473 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 9.2.2015 17.9.2016 12.1.2019 in service (2020)
LCS15 Billings 475 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 2.11.2015 1.7.2017 3.8.2019 in service (2020)
LCS17 Indianapolis 477 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 18.7.2016 18.4.2018 26.10.2019 in service (2020)
LCS19 St. Louis 479 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 17.5.2017 15.12.2018 2020 building (2020)
LCS21 Minneapolis-Saint Paul 481 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 22.2.2018 15.6.2019 2020 building (2020)
LCS23 Cooperstown 483 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 14.8.2018 19.1.2020 2021 building (2020)
LCS25 Marinette 485 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 27.3.2019 2020 2021 building (2020)
LCS27 Nantucket 487 Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 9.10.2019 2021 2022 building (2020)
LCS29 Beloit   Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 2020 2021 2022 building (2020)
LCS31 Cleveland   Marinette Marine, Manitowoc 2021 2022 2023 authorized (2020)

 

Displacement standard, t

2135

Displacement full, t

2860

Length, m

118.1

Breadth, m

17.6

Draught, m

4.30

No of shafts

4 Kamewa waterjets

Machinery

CODAG: 2 Fairbanks Morse Colt-Pielstick 16PA6B STC diesels / 2 Rolls-Royce MT-30 gas turbines

Power, h. p.

17400 / 98000

Max speed, kts

45

Fuel, t

gas turbine oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 3550(18)

Armament

1 x 21 RAM SAM (21 RIM-116), 1 x 1 - 57/70 Mk 110 Mod. 0, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, 2 x 1 - 7.6/90, 2 helicopters (MH-60R/S) or 1 helicopter (MH-60R/S) + 3 UAV (MQ-8B)

also one of three mission modules:

MIW: support of the MH-60S helicopter (with AQS-20A minehunting sonar, ALQ-220 Oasis minesweeping gear, AES-1 laser mine mine detection system, AQS-235 mine neutralization system), 1 MQ-8 UAV (with Cobra laser mine detection system), WLD-1 RMS minehunting system with USV surface drone with USSS minesweeping gear or BPAUV Bluefin-1 mnehunting USV

ASuW: 3 x 15 Griffin SSM (45 AGM-176), 2 x 1 - 30/80 Mk 46, support of the 1 MH-60R helicopter (with Hellfire ASMs), 2 MQ-8B UAV (with APKWS ASMs), 2 USV surface drones (with 1 30mm gun and RGES system)

ASW: CAPTAS towed sonar, TB-37 MFTA towed array, torpedo defence system, 1 MH-60R helicopter, 2 MQ-8B UAVs

Electronic equipment

Sperry Bridgemaster, TRS-3D radars, Dorna E/O director, WBR-2000(Argon), MFEW simplfied ECM suite, 2x Terma DLS Mk II DL-12T decoy RL, COMBATSS-21 CCS

also if used with ASW module: CAPTAS towed sonar, TB-37 MFTA towed array

Complement

75

   

Project history: One outcome of the cancellation of the DD21-class destroyer in 2001 was the initiation of a program to study the possible acquisition of what began as a class of 1250-2500t "Littoral Combat Ship" for use in coastal waters and to combat "asymmetric" threats. The class incorporates numerous signature-reduction features and is designed to be able to defend itself, conduct intelligence, surveillance and recoinnassance operations and interdict hostile or unknown vessels. Marinette Marine was awarded to built Freedom class units under the Lockheed Martin design.

    Freedom class design includes a semiplaning steel monohull with a scalable/reconfigurable design. It is shorter and heavier but with a shallower draft than LCS2 class. The LCS1 design features 480m² flight deck, 435m² helicopter hangar and 605m² mission bay as well as the capability to launch and recover RIBs, small boats and unmanned surface/subsurface craft from the ship's stern and starboardside. Flight deck is equipped with Trigon landing assistance system. Core crew consisted of 40 seamen, 20 additional crew serve in an aviation detachment, about 35 more men are required to the mission module. Each two LCSs have three crews to be operational at all times. LCS1 became a prototype, LCS3 and later ships have 3.7m additional length to the flight deck, mission bay and transom with 12% additional fuel. LCS5 and later ships received new improved waterjets and new shaft seals.

    Modular reconfigurable payload can be carried as dictated by mission requirements. A mission package consists of mission modules, mission crew detachments and support aircraft. First three modules used by LCS, are mine-countermeasures (MIW, Mine Interdiction Warfare), delivered by 2012, surface-warfare (ASuW, AntiSUrface Warfare), delivered by 2012 (Griffin missiles will be added to package in the post-2017 time), and anti-submarine warfare (ASW, AntiSubmarine Warafre), delivered by 2016. Navy plans to have 16 anti-submarine, 24 mine-countermeasures and 24 surface warfare mission packages.

    Three additional types of mission modules are on developing stage. There are: IW (Irregular Warfare) for disaster relief after nature catastrophes, MSM (Maritime Security Module) for reaction to asymmetrical threats and 2 variants of SOF (Special Operations Forces) module.

    Aegis version with SPY-1F radar and SM-2, SM-3 and ESSM missiles is offered for Saudi Arabia.

    Planned life time of the ships is 25 years.

Modernizations: future planned: + Hellfire SSMs, 2 x 1 - 30/80 Mk 46 guns, SQR-20 towed sonar

Naval service: No significant events.

Freedom 2008

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