Navy envisions the Frigate, FFG(X), able to sense enemy targets from great distances, fire next-generation precision weaponry, utilize new networking and ISR technologies, operate unmanned systems ...

Navy Releases Details of New FFG(X) Guided-Missile Frigate Program in Request to Industry. Megan Eckstein. July 10, 2017 12:39 PM - Updated: July 10, 2017 1:33 PM.

On April 30, 2020, the Navy awarded Fincantieri Marinette Marine a contract to build the Navy’s new surface combatant, a guided-missile frigate long designated as FFG(X).1 The contract ...

File photo - Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite announces USS Constellation (FFG 62) as the name for the first ship in the new Guided Missile Frigate class of ships while aboard the museum ...

Navy envisions the Frigate, FFG(X), able to sense enemy targets from great distances, fire next-generation precision weaponry, utilize new networking and ISR technologies, operate unmanned systems ...

The Constellation will be the first warship in the Navy’s new program to build a class of twenty guided-missiles frigates, where were funded by United States Congress in fiscal year 2020 (FY2020 ...

FFG(X) is meant to fill a ... The U.S. Navy expects to buy about 40 new frigates, though if the money is available it is easy to see the order expanding to 50 ships or more.

This week the U.S. Navy published details on what it’s after for its next surface combatant, the FFG(X), or guided missile frigate. This move is designed to shift away from the Littoral Combat ...

The Navy started a quest for a new frigate when former Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel ordered a restructuring of the LCS program back in 2014. ... The FFG(X) will be capable of ...

The new FFG(X) is a big break from the LCS concept. FFG(X) would operate as the eyes and ears of the fleet, sailing with surface task forces and carrier strike groups. The new type of frigate ...

The new FFG(X) warships will be packed with sensors and weapons (including lasers!), a near 180-degree turn from the current ships the Navy is buying. Frigates are some of the smallest surface ...

The FFG(X) is supposed to be a small, multimission ship with a modified version of Raytheon’s SPY-6 radar destined for the Flight III Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, Lockheed Martin’s Aegis ...