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The US Navy built the Constellation frigate to avoid its last shipbuilding disaster — then cancelled all but 2 of 20 after wasting billions
As the French fabulist and poet Jean de la Fontaine once wrote, “a person often meets his destiny on the road he took to ...
After canceling its troubled Constellation-class program, the Navy pivoted to a smaller frigate based on the Coast Guard’s Legend-class cutter. But the new FF(X) arrives with no vertical launch system ...
The U.S. Navy awarded a nearly $283 million contract to HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding to jumpstart work on a new frigate meant to recover from the delays and costs of the abandoned Constellation-class ...
The cancellation of the Constellation-class frigate allowed the Navy to quickly seek a funding boost for the program set to replace it, USNI News has learned. The Fiscal Year 2026 defense ...
The FF(X) program could fill in for the ill-fated Constellation class, which saw cancellation last year after producing only two of the frigates. The US Navy is confident that its new frigate will be ...
January 28, 2026: At the end of 2025 the U.S. Navy/USN cancelled its Constellation-class guided missile frigate program after five years and billions of dollars spent. With not even one frigate ...
The Navy wants the first of the FF(X) frigates to be built by 2028—a full year before the first of the Constellation class, which the FF(X) supplanted. The US Navy is moving forward with the FF(X) ...
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