However, the designs have not been outright successes, prompting the service to head in the direction of the new 'Constellation-class' frigates detailed elsewhere on this site. In all, there are twenty-one LCS hulls operated by the USN with additional units planned or currently under construction.

The warship is designed to the 'Freedom-class' standard headed by Lockheed Martin and is the alternative LCS offering to the 'Independence-class' ships by General Dynamics/Austal. In active service as of this writing (2022), the vessel homeports from Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville, Florida, fighting under the motto of 'Strength - Freedom'. She was launched to sea for trials and training on December 18th, 2013, and formally commissioned into USN service on November 21st, 2015. The contract for USS Milwaukee was awarded to Marinette Marine of Marinette, Wisconsin on December 29th, 2010 and the vessel saw her keel laid down on October 27th, 2011. These warships are corvette-type hulls intended for Close-to-Shore operations - the littoral zone - in support of Allied forces, primarily during amphibious-minded assaults.

USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) represents one of sixteen planned 'Littoral Combat Ships' designed and manufactured for the United States Navy (USN).

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