Navy official: Frigate design will remain the same, despite hull changes, and second shipyard is pre-decisional

By Audrey Decker / August 5, 2021 at 11:42 AM
The next Navy FFG-62 Constellation-class warship hull will be widened and elongated, but the internal design will remain the same, a Navy official said this week. "I guess you could say we bought a bigger house," Capt. Kevin Smith, program manager for the Constellation-class warship, told attendees at a program briefing Monday at the Navy League's Sea-Air-Space conference. Internally, the design of the next guided-missile frigate is much like the parent design, so it's more of a scale issue now,...

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