Landing Ship Medium Program Stalled Over Price, Navy Cancels Industry RFP. ... If the Navy buys the 18 to 35 ships according to current plans, each hull could cost $340 to $430 million.

Under the fiscal year 2024 budget, the Navy sought to purchase the first landing ship medium in fiscal year 2025 at a cost of $187.9 million, with a total of at least six LSMs purchased by fiscal ...

The Navy wants a Louisiana shipyard to build the first hull for the Landing Ship Medium program as part of a plan to find an off-the-shelf design to support the Marine Corps’ new island-hopping ...

The Navy is relying on the combination of the annual defense budget and supplemental legislation to buy 19 new ships in 2026, ...

House authorizers are backing the Navy and Marine Corps' new approach to Landing Ship Medium procurement with their draft fiscal year 2026 defense policy bill, which directs the Navy secretary to ...

The Medium Landing Ship would be just 200 to 400 feet long with a loading ramp, a helicopter pad, a few light guns for self-defence and space for 70 crew, a platoon of 50 Marines as well as 650 ...

Plans call for another landing ship medium purchase in fiscal 2026 and two each year after that through 2029. The program previously was called the light amphibious warship program.

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 Navy plans to start building the ships in 2025.

For FY25, the Navy plans to buy seven: two subs, two destroyers, a frigate, its first ocean surveillance ship, and its first Landing Ship Medium.