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 ...

Both the Italian and French navies are taking deliveries of their FREMM frigates as part of wider surface fleet modernisation and expansion plans. The acquisition of two new Bergamini-class FREMM ...

This post has been updated with a rendering of the proposed FF(X) design. The U.S. Coast Guard Legend-class will serve as 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 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 ...

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy has officially killed the Constellation-class frigate program, terminating four future ships and leaving only two half-built hulls in limbo. -Billed in 2020 as a ...

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 ...

Rumors suggest that the contract for America’s next guided-missile frigates will be awarded as early as this afternoon. One winner will cheer the award of ten new frigates worth $900 million to $1.3 ...

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 ...

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy has pulled the plug on the Constellation-class frigate after only two ships, cancelling four hulls and effectively killing what was supposed to be its “low-risk” ...

The U.S. Navy, burned in the past, is stepping back from reinventing — or even redesigning — the wheel. That’s why the Navy’s new Constellation-class of frigates might bring to mind warships currently ...