After killing the Constellation-class frigate program, the Navy announced plans to build a replacement “FF(X) frigate” based on a Coast Guard cutter.

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

Firing over-the-horizon deck-launched missiles, launching electronic warfare (EW) attacks, intercepting incoming enemy fire, and serving as a crucial information "node" across a networked surface, air ...

EVERETT— A plan to house a dozen guided missile frigates promised for Naval Station Everett is dead after Secretary of the ...

The Navy envisions a new multi-mission Guided Missile Frigate able to sense enemy targets from great distances, fire next-generation precision weaponry, utilize new networking and ISR (intelligence, ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy’s recent force structure study puts even greater importance on small combatants, the director of surface warfare said, a shift in priorities that could require the surface ...

On December 29, 2025, HD Hyundai Heavy Industries announced a new contract with the Philippine Department of National Defence ...

MOSCOW — Russia has commissioned the frigate Admiral Golovko, the country’s first ship built to launch Zircon hypersonic missiles, the government announced. At the Dec. 25 flag-raising ceremony, ...

Information Specialist 1st Class Matthew Stephenson mans the lines as the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Sioux City (LCS-11) gets underway on Aug. 30, 2020. US Navy Photo The Navy in the ...

Littoral Combat Ship Tulsa (LCS-16) is heading back to Austal USA after launching from the drydock at BAE Ship Systems. She’s passing Austal’s vessel completion yard where USNS Yuma (EPF 8), future ...

From right, the Independence-variant littoral combat ships Tulsa, Manchester and Independence sail in formation in the Pacific Ocean on Feb. 27, 2019. (MC Shannon Renfroe/U.S. Navy) WASHINGTON — The U ...