edacious, ravenous, voracious, esurient, rapacious, ravening. gluttonous - given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink; over-fed women and their gluttonous husbands; a gluttonous debauch; a gluttonous appetite for food and praise and pleasure.
Freedom-class littoral combat ship. For the RCI cruise ship class, see Freedom-class cruise ship. The Freedom class is one of two classes of littoral combat ship built for the United States Navy. The Freedom class was proposed by Lockheed Martin as a contender for a fleet of small, multipurpose warships to operate in the littoral zone.
USS Freedom (LCS-1), the first in the Lockheed Martin Independence Class of littoral combat ships. The littoral combat ship (LCS) is the first of a new family of surface ships for the US Navy.. Lockheed Martin proposed the Freedom class of littoral combat ship based on a semi-planing monohull design. Lockheed Martin received a contract for the first Freedom class ship, LCS-1, in December 2004.