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The US Navy just lit another $9 billion on fire
« on: December 07, 2025, 08:13:16 am »
 
The US Navy just lit another $9 billion on fire
The cancellation of the Constellation-class program shows that the military's shipbuilding problem is Washington, not China
 
Dan Grazier
Dec 04, 2025


The United States Navy has a storied combat record at sea, but the service hasn’t had a successful shipbuilding program in decades. John Phelan, the secretary of the Navy, announced the latest shipbuilding failure by canceling the Constellation-class program on a November 25.

The Constellation program was supposed to produce 20 frigates to serve as small surface combatant ships to support the rest of the fleet and be able to conduct independent patrols. In an effort to reduce development risks and avoid fielding delays that often accompany entirely new designs, Navy officials decided to use an already proven parent design they could modify to meet the Navy’s needs. They selected the European multi-purpose frigate design employed by the French and Italian navies.

Navy leaders made the decision to speed up the process with the Constellation program because it was supposed to fill the capability gap created by the failure of the Littoral Combat Ship program. The LCS was intended to be the Navy’s affordable small surface combatant ship of the future, but it ended up failing spectacularly. Engineers were never able to get the ship’s mission hardware to work properly. The ships also suffered a string of embarrassing mechanical breakdowns.

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Re: The US Navy just lit another $9 billion on fire
« Reply #1 on: December 07, 2025, 09:51:08 am »
Pretty stupid trying to build a Navy warship based on an Italian hull, designed for a completely different mission set.  No problem, it's all the same they said. And its interoperable too!

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Re: The US Navy just lit another $9 billion on fire
« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2025, 10:29:27 am »
Quote from: Timber Rattler on December 07, 2025, 09:51:08 am
Pretty stupid trying to build a Navy warship based on an Italian hull, designed for a completely different mission set.  No problem, it's all the same they said. And its interoperable too!

Pfffft!


The Constellation Class failure;
The Littoral Combat Ships failure;
The DDG-1000 destroyer failure.

Sensing a trend here.
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Re: The US Navy just lit another $9 billion on fire
« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2025, 10:59:19 am »
Top down shakeup, starting at the Pentagon.
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Re: The US Navy just lit another $9 billion on fire
« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2025, 11:18:31 am »
Quote from: BobfromWB on December 07, 2025, 10:29:27 am

The Constellation Class failure;
The Littoral Combat Ships failure;
The DDG-1000 destroyer failure.

Sensing a trend here.

Time to update the Aegis design and run with it.
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Re: The US Navy just lit another $9 billion on fire
« Reply #5 on: December 07, 2025, 11:22:13 am »
It looks like the ship building plan was put together by Rube Goldberg. :facepalm2:
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Re: The US Navy just lit another $9 billion on fire
« Reply #6 on: December 07, 2025, 11:00:51 pm »
It might help if they actually had the ship designed before they laid the keel. **nononono*
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