The SteelNavy.Com Message Board: Re: You knew it had to happen

They are already failures. Not able to be mass produced fast enough, nor in enough quantity. Their cost...around $1.5 billion per ship...is also "finacially unsustainable." Like it or not, LCS run in the hundreds of millions of dollars range. Cheaper. Also proof that a cheaper hull is possible. They may well end up two great frigates. We don't need two great frigates. We need "something else." Off we go on our merry adventure! I have always been along for the ride (and my remaining time on the ride has gotten shorter. So, I have less "long term" to be concerned about.) The suspense is NOT killing me. I will derive some relief from boredom watching the new developments. Something to look forward to, studying this new development.

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Ralph, I have a 1/96 scale model, fortunately of the Constellation, but Charles H has the Chesapeake the first of the cancelled ships.

Question: What happens if the 2 they build become a success?

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Of course. Naturally! I just bought a brand new Constellation model, Lol.

Thank you, Francine. That got me to go reading in a hurry.

Here's USNI:

https://news.usni.org/2025/11/25/navy-cancels-constellation-class-frigate-program-considering-new-small-surface-combatants

I will be interested in what we shift to. Some tantilizing things I read, but nothing concrete. It is claimed we learn more from our mistakes than our successes. That then should theoretically make us "geniuses." Except we instead seem to simply repeat our mistakes. There is still the hope here at the outset that we will learn from our mistakes this time, not repeat them.

I will agree that we need to speed things up, and the Constellation program was certainly not the right one for that. A fresh start that genuinely generates numbers rapidly is a good move. It does have to actually work like that, though, it's true...

The future has never been certain. We will all find out. Success will bring "justification." Failure will bring recrimination. Nothing new there.

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After a miserable start, the Constellation Frigates have been cancelled. Only 2 will be built: Constellation FFG 62 and Congress FFG 63.

The Navy states that are turning attention to smaller, easier and quicker to produce ships.

Well, let's see how much the design team and screw up again.