The Navy wants to buy 19 ships in fiscal year 2026, but delays, aging shipyards, and new threats may upset those plans.

With 15 active vessels, advanced design features, and the ability to deploy troops, vehicles, and helicopters, the ship ...

The development of a new landing ship key to the Marines Corps’ island-hopping strategy in the Western Pacific is on hold due to Navy concerns over cost, USNI News has learned. After receiving ...

Marines plan to test a new ship this spring that they see as the answer to fighting in littorals with new formations. The landing ship medium, formerly known as the light amphibious warship, is ...

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 U.S. military is suspending its efforts to secure a small Pacific island as the test landing site for a new program using ...

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.

The plan, as recently as 2023, was for the Navy to buy at least 18 and as many as 35 Medium Landing Ships for $150 million apiece starting that year. Instead, keel-laying for the first ship has ...

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 Navy and Marines are back on the same page about a low-cost Landing Ship Medium, following negotiations over survivability and capability of the craft.

The Congressional Budget Office expects the Landing Ship Medium program to cost billions of dollars more than the U.S. Navy previously estimated, though the organization noted that ongoing ...

The Navy’s medium landing ship, or LSM, shown here in an artist’s rendering, is a key element of a U.S. Marine Corps plan to modernize the service. The 18-ship program may now exceed $6.2 ...