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The U.S. Navy’s Constellation-Class Frigate Crisis Keeps Getting Worse

The Constellation-class frigate was sold as the Navy’s antidote to the Littoral Combat Ship: a proven European hull, minimal changes, and a low-risk path to a capable small surface combatant. -Instead ...
Then-Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday toured Fincantieri Marinettte Marine Shipyard with leadership from the shipyard on March 23, 2021. (Cmdr. Nate Christensen/US Navy) ARLINGTON, Va. — The ...
A future constellation-class guided missile frigate (FFG 69) will be named USS Joy Bright Hancock, a tribute to one of the first female officers to serve in the U.S. Navy, according to a Navy news ...
Construction began in August on the first of the US Navy's Constellation-class frigates. It's the first new frigate since the last Oliver Hazard Perry-class ship was built in the late '80s. While the ...
Summary: The article discusses the U.S. Navy’s venture into developing the Constellation-class guided-missile frigate, inspired by European multipurpose frigates, during America’s post-Cold War ...
Summary: The U.S. Navy’s Constellation-class guided-missile frigate program is now three years behind schedule, with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) attributing the delays to “design ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro this week announced that the sponsors of the future Constellation-class guided-missile frigate USS Congress-- the second in the class -- will be ...
House authorizers added a second Virginia-class submarine in their mark of the Fiscal Year 2025 defense policy bill, a departure from the Biden administration’s decision to ask for only one attack ...