WASHINGTON — To meet the U.S. Navy’s famously high survivability standards, the FREMM frigate design has had to hit the gym and pack on hundreds of thousands of pounds of muscle in pursuit of wining ...

The Constellation-class frigate, intended as a low-risk, FREMM-based escort to replace LCS gaps and relieve destroyers, is now 36 months late and 13% heavier. -U.S. system insertions, added ...

The US Navy has selected the design for its new FFG (X) frigate and explained why it is retiring four LCS ships early The new frigate will be based on the Italian FREMM frigate The American FREMM will ...

It came as shock when, on April 2, it was announced the Navy’s new Constellation-class frigate (under construction by Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Wisconsin) had fallen way behind schedule. The ...

The Navy on Thursday awarded a much-anticipated $795 million contract to a Wisconsin-based shipbuilder to begin production on the first of the service's next-generation small-surface combatants.

The decision by the USN on 30 April to award the contract for the build up to ten of the future FFG(X) guided missile frigates to Fincantieri Marinette Marine draws a line under one of the most hotly ...

The Italian FREMM Alpino underway off the coast of Virginia during its 2018 deployment to the East Coast. (Staff photo by David B. Larter) WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy’s newest surface combatant has ...

Jakarta has selected the Bergamini (FREMM) class design for a programme to procure follow-on vessels to the Indonesian Navy's (Tentara Nasional Indonesia- Angkatan Laut: TNI-AL's) two Martadinata ...

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