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The Navy’s Constellation-Class Frigate Has a Message for the U.S. Navy

Key Points and Summary - The U.S. Navy is abruptly walking away from most of its Constellation-class frigate program, canceling four of six planned ships and keeping only USS Constellation and USS ...
SlashGear

A Major US Navy Frigate Program Was Canceled (But Here's What's Being Built Instead)

The U.S. Navy has decided to step back from its Constellation-class frigate program in favor of faster-to-build vessels and a new, American-designed frigate. That means the cancellation of four ...
The National Interest

America Has Finally Put an End to Its Constellation-Class Frigate Nightmare

The Constellation class has finally, and rightly, been canceled. Here are three ways the US Navy might make up for its absence. America continues to prove it cannot compete with its great power rivals ...
CNN

US Navy axes frigate program in another blow to efforts to keep up with China’s fleet

The US Navy’s beleaguered shipbuilding program took a major hit on Tuesday as Navy Secretary John Phelan announced he was cancelling plans to buy Constellation-class frigates, once heralded as a key ...
Stars and Stripes

Navy will build new frigate based on cutter design

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 ...
USNI

Funding Bill Moves Constellation Frigate Money for New FF(X) Program

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 ...