USS Milwaukee (LCS-5)

USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) will be a Freedom class littoral combat ship of the United States Navy. She will be the fifth ship to be named for the city of Milwaukee, the largest city in Wisconsin.

Milwaukee is currently under construction by the Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, as partners of Lockheed Martin. Her keel was laid down on 27 October 2011. Lockheed VP Joe North has said that starting with the Milwaukee, the Lockheed LCS design is "done, locked and stable". This is after 30 or so changes from LCS-3 on top of hundreds of changes from LCS-1. One of the improvements for Milwaukee are specially designed waterjets that replace the commercial versions used on previous LCS.

The launch and naming ceremony is expected to take place in late November or early December 2013. Milwaukee is expected to be delivered to the fleet in 2014.