March 1, 2020
Quantity Over Size: The Navy's New War Plan Is Prioritizing Frigates
More missiles, more robots, more ships.
by David Axe
Key point: The new frigate also could function as a command vessel for robotic vessels...
The U.S. Navy might tweak its force-structure goals in order to boost the number of frigates.
That's what Vice Adm. Bill Merz, the deputy chief of naval operations, told a House of Representatives subcommittee on March 27, 2019. "We’re expecting a pretty hard look at the mix of ships this year," Merz said, according to USNI News.
In rewriting the force-structure plan to include more small surface combatants, the Navy could signal its intention to acquire larger numbers of smaller ships at the expense of bigger ships.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/quantity-over-size-navys-new-war-plan-prioritizing-frigates-128197
