This post has been updated with a statement from Fincantieri The Navy is walking away from the Constellation-class frigate ...
Service limits 20-ship line to two hulls after redesigns and delays torpedo schedule The US Navy is scrapping an entire ...
The Constellation-class frigate will now go the same way as the Zumwalt-class destroyer and the Littoral Combat ...
However, the US Navy still has a requirement for 73 small surface combatants. It is reportedly in the middle of a fleet design review to assess how the service will develop these—but given the ...
According to the Navy’s FY 2025 shipbuilding plan, the service intends to move toward a fleet mix that includes fewer small ...
Navy Secretary John Phelan announced the service’s plan to cancel the bulk of the $22 billion Constellation-class ...
Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced a "strategic shift" away from the Constellation-class frigate program this week ...
Navy Sec. John Phelan emphasized the need for a new framework that focuses on fast-tracking the construction and deployment of more ships.
The US Navy has formally cancelled the bulk of its Constellation-class frigate programme, ending plans for a 20-ship fleet ...
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 ...
The Navy on Thursday announced a $1 billion contract award to Fincantieri Marinette Marine for the next two Constellation-class frigates. The award is for FFG-66 and FFG-67, the fifth and sixth ...
In July 2017, the US Navy announced the FFG(X) frigate project in the United States Department of Defense’s Request for Information (RFI). The FFG(X) would serve as a program to field a new ...