SUPER FFG(X) !!! Meet The US Navy’s Newest Frigate

SUPER FFG(X) !!! Meet The US Navy’s Newest Frigate

This Italian-designed frigate will be America’s workhorse for decades to come. the Navy awarded the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri a $795 million contract to design and build the Navy’s newest ship. Though the FFG(X)’s exact specifications have not yet been determined, the FFG(X) is a guided-missile frigate with an area-defense anti-air warfare system. The FFG(X) is designed to be more capable than both the Independence- and Freedom-classes that make up the Littoral Combat Ship program. Both classes have suffered numerous breakdown and cost overruns, and despite the massive amount of spending sunk into the LCS program, both classes have been deemed unsurvivable in a high-end fight against a peer or near-peer adversary.

In contrast to larger surface ships like aircraft carriers or destroyers, the FFG(X), is intended to operate in lower-threat environments. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service defined the mission scope and capabilities of frigates in general and explained why they just can hang with the bigger ships:

“In contrast to cruisers and destroyers, which are designed to operate in higher-threat areas, frigates are generally intended to operate more in lower-threat areas. U.S. Navy frigates perform many of the same peacetime and wartime missions as U.S. Navy cruisers and destroyers, but since frigates are intended to do so in lower-threat areas, they are equipped with fewer weapons, less-capable radars and other systems, and less engineering redundancy and survivability than cruisers and destroyers.”

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