There are two variants of LCS — Independence and Freedom — and the Coronado is an Independence-class ship.
Independence variants are 421.5 feet long.
And have a beam of 103.7 feet.
The Independence variants have trimarian hulls, which means there's a main hull and two smaller hulls on the sides, which you can see below.
But the hulls are also aluminum hulls and rather thin, and the hull of the USS Montgomery, seen below, even cracked in 2016.
Here's a shot of the Coronado's helicopter flight deck.
And another from the deck itself.
Here's a shot from the deck looking into the hangar bay.
And a shot from the hangar bay onto the flight deck.
And another from the helicopter control tower.
LCS are configured to carry MH-60R/S Sea Hawk helicopters and tactical UAVs.
But they lack major armaments.
They have a Harpoon anti-ship missile system on the bow.
50-calibre machine guns on the port and starboard walkways and on the stern underneath the flight deck.
And a SeaRAM anti-ship missile defense system, which is on the roof of the hangar.
It also has an ALEX Decoy System — but that's it.
Here's a shot of the bridge.
And another from a different angle.
This is the firing authorization panel in the bridge.
The LCS runs on a water jet propulsion with combined diesel and gas turbine engines.
In August 2016, one of the Coronado's flexible shafts failed, forcing it to return to San Diego from Hawaii.
But that's not the only kind of engine casualty LCS vessels have had, which you can read more about here.
Source: US Navy
LCS have cost the US billions and billions of dollars over the last 16 years, but have largely been a failure. At least their crews seem to have had fun at times though.
