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Legend-Class Cutter Midgett Clears Weird-Looking Drone for Coast Guard Use

When imagining an intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) drone, the mind usually conjures up a machine shaped pretty much like one of the existing types of aircraft, be them helicopters ...
Homeland Security Today

Eleventh National Security Cutter Named for Pioneering Code-Breaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman

The Coast Guard is naming the 11th Legend-Class National Security Cutter (NSC) in honor of Elizebeth Smith Friedman. Friedman was a pioneering code-breaker for the Coast Guard during the Prohibition ...
StrategyPage

Surface Forces: New US Frigate Based on Coast Guard Cutter

February 7, 2026: The U.S. Navy has decided to base their new FFX frigate on the current Coast Guard Legend-class cutter. Ten Legends entered service between 2008 and 2024. Two more are being built.
Post and Courier

Coast Guard's newest national security cutter commissioned in North Charleston

NORTH CHARLESTON — The Coast Guard's newest national security cutter was commissioned in a ceremony March 19. Officials gathered to commission the USCG Cutter Stone during a ceremony at Coast Guard ...
Stars and Stripes

Coast Guard commissions newest national security cutter Calhoun, named for service’s first master chief petty officer

The U.S. Coast Guard commissioned its newest cutter, the USCGC Calhoun (WMSL 759), on Saturday at Coast Guard Base Charleston, S.C. The Legend-class national security cutter is named for the first ...