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Correction: The follow-on ships in the Constellation class will cost between $850 million and $950 million in constant-year 2018 dollars.<\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 The U.S. Navy\u2019s next-generation frigate, the Constellation class<\/a>, is a do-or-die effort for the service and a critical test of its return to building ships around existing technologies rather than designing them around technologies in development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a roundtable with reporters Friday, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday<\/a> said the Constellation class will be the model for how the Navy designs and builds<\/a> the next class of destroyer, the so-called DDG Next. And for that reason, the Navy has to get it right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can\u2019t afford for FFG(X) to be anything but coming off a world-class production line that produces a ship that we can count on,\u201d Gilday told reporters in comments ahead of the annual Surface Navy Association symposium, using an acronym for the service\u2019s future frigate. \u201cThat will also inform how we\u2019re going to design and build DDG Next. Those have to be world-class efforts that deliver on time, on budget, with the right capacity, with the right capabilities that we need.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The idea behind FFG(X) was to build a best-in-breed ship with all the latest technologies on a smaller platform for less money than it would cost to build a comparable number of Flight III DDGs. The ship will use a scaled-down version of the Flight III\u2019s SPY-6 air and missile defense radar<\/a>, a generational leap over the SPY-1 radar that makes up most of the surface combatant fleet today. The idea behind DDG Next will be to build a ship around a power source sufficient for electronic warfare and laser weapons of the future, which will place enormous and complicated demands on the ship\u2019s power systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Navy awarded the next-generation frigate to Fincantieri in April 2020, and it will be built at the Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin, where the Lockheed Martin-designed Freedom-class <\/a>littoral combat ship is being built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the Navy gets closer to beginning construction on the lead ship, USS Constellation, more details are coming into focus. Here is the latest information on the ship class and what the Navy expects to build:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A rendering of the USS Constellation from a Navy brief delivered at the 2021 Surface Navy Association Symposium. (Navy)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Vital statistics:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • Cost: lead ship $1.28 billion; follow-on ships between $850 million and $950 million in constant-year 2018 dollars.<\/li>
  • Length: 496 feet<\/li>
  • Beam: 65 feet<\/li>
  • Fully loaded displacement: 7,291 tons<\/li>
  • Propulsion: combined diesel-electric and gas<\/li>
  • Major engineering equipment: one gas turbine; two electric propulsion motors; four ship service diesel generators; one auxiliary propulsion unit<\/li>
  • Crew accommodation: 200<\/li>
  • Expected service life: 25 years<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Armament:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    • MK 110 57mm gun<\/li>
    • 32-cell MK 41 Vertical Launching System<\/li>
    • 16 Naval Strike Missiles<\/li>
    • MK 49 Guided Missile Launching System<\/li>
    • Four MK 53 MOD 9 Decoy Launching System<\/li>
    • Two AN-SLQ-32(V)6 Shipboard Electronic Warfare System<\/li>
    • One MH-60R Seahawk helicopter plus a UAV<\/li>
    • Aegis Baseline 10 Combat System<\/li>
    • AN\/SPY-6(V3) Phased Array Radar<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Timeline:<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      • Start of construction: first quarter of 2022<\/li>
      • Keel laid: first quarter of 2023<\/li>
      • Launch: first quarter of 2025<\/li>
      • Delivery: third quarter of 2026<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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