The following is the Jan. 5, 2026, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Constellation (FFG-62) and FF(X) Class Frigate ...

The Navy's new frigate will be obsolete from the start. It's not great, but it is what we have, and if many can be built a ...

The decision by the US at the end of 2025 to cancel the Constellation-class frigate for a new FF(X) design caught many by ...

The U.S. Navy has canceled its original plans for the Constellation-class frigate program, limiting it to just the two ships already being constructed.

The fundamental concept behind the new frigate is sound, and the Navy’s goal of having the first one built in three years may ...

The future small surface combatant ship will be built by Huntington Ingalls Industries and based on its Legends-class cutter used by the Coast Guard.

On April 12, the Navy held a symbolic keel-laying ceremony for the U.S.S. Constellation—the lead ship of a new class that will bring frigate-class warships back to the U.S. Navy after the service’s ...

When the USS Lafayette hits the waters later in the decade, it will join the USS Constellation, USS Congress, and USS Chesapeake. The Navy has asserted that this incoming vessel will have the ...

At a moment where many Navy shipbuilding programs are stalling, the Constellation-class guided missile frigate stands out as the most behind schedule, the most over budget, and the most emblematic of ...

The Constellation-class frigate was supposed to replace the aging Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates now in service. However, last year, the US Navy warned that the program was running up to... A ...

Less than a month after killing the bulk of the Constellation-class frigate program, the Navy announced late Thursday plans to build a replacement “FF(X) frigate” based on a Coast Guard cutter already ...

While the U.S. Navy’s first Constellation-Class Frigate (FFG 62) is under construction in the United States, Norway is showing serious interest in the guided-missile frigate, as well as bolstering its ...