According to the Navy’s FY 2025 shipbuilding plan, the service intends to move toward a fleet mix that includes fewer small surface combatants while accelerating investments in unmanned systems and ...
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 ...
Service limits 20-ship line to two hulls after redesigns and delays torpedo schedule The US Navy is scrapping an entire shipbuilding program in an effort to find alternatives that can be delivered ...
The Constellation-class frigate will now go the same way as the Zumwalt-class destroyer and the Littoral Combat Ship—expensive programs canceled well before their time, at great cost to the taxpayer.
The U.S. Navy is canceling the final four planned Constellation-class frigates, redirecting resources toward ship classes the service says can be delivered faster and built across more yards. Secretar ...
The USN terminated work on four Constellation-class frigates, shown here in a rendering. (US Navy) The US Navy (USN) is making a “strategic shift away from the Constellation-class frigate programme”, ...
Cost concerns are growing about the building of the US Navy's guided-missile frigate, shown here in a rendering. (US Navy) With the US Navy (USN) guided-missile frigate (FFG) shipbuilding programme ...
President Marcos Jr. is presented with American-made unmanned surface vessels at Naval Operating Base Subic by Navy Chief Ezpeleta with BRP Miguel Malvar in the background. Screenshot from RTVM stream ...