The irony is that the Littoral Combat Ship was explicitly designed to operate in littoral waters like the Red Sea – and the program began when the U.S. military was engaged in the Global War on Terror (GWOT) following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
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Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) were supposed to have enhanced the U.S. Navy's ability to engage smaller targets with a range of mission-oriented weapons packages.