
A top Navy official said the service is experimenting with using Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) to support the Marine Corps’ Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) mission as they add new weapons and capabilities. Last week, Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, commander of Naval Surface Forces, said what he particularly likes about the LCS is its well deck, flight deck, especially the version on the Independence-variant. The Navy can launch Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (UUVs) from the ships,…