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LCS-25 Delivers To Navy

LCS-25 Delivers To Navy
The future USS Marinette (LCS-25) Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship was delivered to the Navy on Feb. 3, 2023. It is scheduled to be commissioned in June before being posted to its homeport of Mayport, Fla. with its sister ships. (Photo: U.S. Navy).

The Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Marinette (LCS-25) Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) on Feb. 3 at the builder’s Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wis. The odd-numbered Freedom-variant LCSs are built by Fincantieri in Marinette under prime contractor Lockheed Martin [LMT]. The Navy is also procuring even-numbered Independence-variant LCSs, built by Austal USA in Mobile, Ala. Delivery followed the successful completion of acceptance trials by LCS-25 in November. During those trials, the Navy’s Board in Inspection and…

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