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The Trump-class battleship, BBG(X), lead ship USS Defiant, is slated for as many as 200 vertical launch cells firing Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonics and...
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The Trump-class battleship, BBG(X), lead ship USS Defiant, is slated for as many as 200 vertical launch cells firing Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonics and...
The Constellation-class was supposed to be 85 percent FREMM and cheap. It gained 500 tons, blew its budget, and was canceled. The FF(X) replacing...
Canceled last November after a 20-ship, $22 billion plan collapsed, the frigate is being replaced by an upgraded Coast Guard Legend-class cutter. HII has...
The last new US Navy frigate was only at 12 percent complete when the program was ended. The next one starts as a Coast...
Nineteen former US Navy Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates are in service under foreign flags — eight in Turkey, four in Egypt, two each in...
The Navy designed the Constellation-class frigate around a proven European ship specifically to avoid another Zumwalt-class disaster. Then the Pentagon’s acquisitions bureaucracy redesigned 85%...
The Constellation-Class Frigate: The U.S. Navy’s Great Mistake In its definition of the word “constellation,” NASA notes that “These stars are far away from...
Why the U.S. Navy’s Constellation-Class Frigates Seemed Destined to Fail In November 2025, the U.S. Navy abruptly cancelled most of its Constellation-class frigate program,...
The Death of the Constellation-Class: Why the Navy Pivoted to the FF(X) Frigate Cost overruns, production complications, changing requirements, and substantial design flaws are...
The U.S. Navy is currently trapped in what strategic analysts call a "Doom Loop"—a self-reinforcing cycle where industrial decay, design instability, and workforce shortages...