The invention provides a water-channel water-returning littoral combat ship and belongs to military equipment. The water-channel water-returning littoral combat ship comprises a ship body, a middle cabin, a lateral cabin, a base plate, a water inlet, a water-passing channel, a propeller and a water outlet, and is characterized in that: a bottom cabin is a rectangular cube; the water-passing channel with four surfaces being closed is arranged in the rectangular cube; the propeller is arranged in the water-passing channel; and water passes through the water-passing channel from the water inlet and is removed from the water outlet, so as to realize the advancing of the combat ship. Compared with the prior art, the water-channel water-returning littoral combat ship has the advantages of simple structure, adaptation to fluid mechanic law, small resistance, high speed, shallow drafting, silence, small target, wide moving area, strong adaptive capacity and excellent popularization and application values.