Date Deployed: 17 December 1977 (Oliver Hazard Perry ... such as the frigate and there are no frigates planned in the Navy's five-year shipbuilding plan. The lead ship of the class, USS OLIVER ...

What You Need to Know: The U.S. Navy's Constellation-class ... This brings us to the next issue for why the Constellation-class frigate will never see the light of day. That’s the onerous ...

Building ships quickly means using extensive 3-D modeling, prototyping and risk reduction analysis instead of assuming a ...

It’s possible the first ship won’t commission until 2029, a full 15 years after the Navy identified a need for a new frigate ...

The U.S. Navy is seriously considering reactivating as many as seven recently-decommissioned Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigates in order to quickly boost the size of the U.S. Navy ...