Sam LaGrone is the editor of USNI News. The Navy chose a version of the Italian Bergamini-class ship for the parent design of its new frigate. We’ve touched almost every drawing from the parent design,” Hunt said. build(); The engineers are sitting down and doing drawings,” Fincantieri Marinette Marine president and former U.S. Follow @samlagrone// , Navy: First Constellation Frigate Will Start Fabrication This Year as Shipyard Expands, Member Services call 800-233-8764 or 410-268-6110, Chinese Survey Ship Caught ‘Running Dark’ Give Clues to Underwater Drone Operations. Even with using the FREMM as a parent design, the Navy and designers Gibbs & Cox are making extensive revisions to accommodate not only American survivability standards, but also the margins the ship will need to accommodate new weapons and sensors over the life of the hull. The Constitution, known as "Old Ironsides," remains the world's oldest commissioned warship afloat. (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start': Estimated to displace about 7,300 tons fully loaded, the Connies will feature a derivative of the AN/SPY-6 radar being installed on the Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers, a 32-cell vertical launch system, Aegis Baseline 10 combat system and 16 anti-ship Naval Strike Missiles, with a crew of about 200. U.S. Navy. googletag.defineSlot('/21810829768/news_usni-site-sidebar_2', sidebarSizes, 'div-gpt-ad-1559941295217-0').defineSizeMapping(sidebarSizeMapping).addService(googletag.pubads()); “Some of those could lead to direct energy type projects and other capabilities.”. [CDATA[ /* Construction of the first ship is scheduled to begin by April 2022; Fincantieri is to deliver it to the Navy … Detailed design of the future frigate, known as FFG(X), starts right away, Geurts … }); Those are still being refined as we get ready for a critical design review later this fall.”. }); “By the time we complete ship two, we’ll be at a hundred percent American.”. new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0], }); Rendering of USS Constellation (FFG-62). design—an approach called the parent-design approach. dataLayer.push( dataLayer_content );//]]> //