{"id":47637,"date":"2025-08-14T08:45:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T06:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=47637"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:46:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:46:45","slug":"usa-constellation-frigate-further-construction-or-new-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/usa-constellation-fregatte-weiterbau-oder-neuanfang\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: Constellation frigate - continuing construction or a new start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"115\" data-end=\"184\"><strong data-start=\"115\" data-end=\"184\">Breaking tradition with consequences: US Navy and the Constellation debacle<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"186\" data-end=\"762\">When the US Navy decided to use the Italian FREMM frigate design from Fincantieri for its new FFG-62 Constellation class, this marked a break with 200 years of naval tradition: until then, all major surface combatants had been developed in-house by American shipyards. One reason for this turnaround may also lie in the only moderately successful in-house developments of recent decades - such as the Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) or the futuristic but problematic Zumwalt-class destroyers.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"764\" data-end=\"1211\">But five years after the contract was awarded and three years after construction of the \"Constellation\" began, there is now great disillusionment:<br data-start=\"887\" data-end=\"890\" \/>Only around <strong data-start=\"899\" data-end=\"935\">10 % of the construction are completed<\/strong>the design is still not finalised. The delivery of the type ship, originally planned for the end of 2026, will be delayed by at least <strong data-start=\"1067\" data-end=\"1089\">delay one year<\/strong>one commissioning <strong data-start=\"1113\" data-end=\"1143\">before 2028 is unrealistic<\/strong>. The other 19 units will also be delayed accordingly.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1213\" data-end=\"1513\">Costs are also rising: the construction programme is currently increasing in price by <strong data-start=\"1281\" data-end=\"1294\">around 40 %<\/strong> - to now <strong data-start=\"1309\" data-end=\"1334\">1.4 billion dollars<\/strong> (approx. 1.25 billion euros). And this despite the fact that <strong data-start=\"1373\" data-end=\"1407\">Straight price and short construction time<\/strong> were the decisive arguments in favour of the tried and tested Italian design.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"1530\">The causes:<\/p>\n<ul data-start=\"1531\" data-end=\"1821\">\n<li data-start=\"1531\" data-end=\"1684\">\n<p data-start=\"1533\" data-end=\"1684\">Numerous <strong data-start=\"1544\" data-end=\"1570\">late change requests<\/strong>so that in the meantime only <strong data-start=\"1601\" data-end=\"1609\">15 %<\/strong> of the design correspond to the Italian original (85 % were planned).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1685\" data-end=\"1768\">\n<p data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1768\"><strong data-start=\"1687\" data-end=\"1721\">Delayed material procurement<\/strong>especially for long-running components.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li data-start=\"1769\" data-end=\"1821\">\n<p data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1821\"><strong data-start=\"1771\" data-end=\"1791\">Shortage of skilled labour<\/strong> in the US shipbuilding industry.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p data-start=\"1823\" data-end=\"2197\">The sobering conclusion: the construction of the \"Constellation\" on American soil is taking a long time. <strong data-start=\"1908\" data-end=\"1928\">twice as long<\/strong> like a shipyard in Italy. Even the latest executive order from the White House - \"Restoring America's Maritime Dominance\" - does little to change the fact that <strong data-start=\"2092\" data-end=\"2156\">American shipbuilding is becoming increasingly less attractive<\/strong>and is hardly in demand internationally.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2199\" data-end=\"2294\"><strong data-start=\"2199\" data-end=\"2249\">The central question for the US Navy is now:<\/strong><br data-start=\"2249\" data-end=\"2252\" \/><strong data-start=\"2252\" data-end=\"2294\">\"Continue building or start from scratch?\"<\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionsbruch mit Folgen: US-Navy und das Constellation-Debakel Als sich die US Navy entschied, f\u00fcr ihre neue FFG-62-Constellation-Klasse auf das italienische FREMM-Fregattendesign von Fincantieri zu setzen, bedeutete das einen Bruch mit 200 Jahren Marine-Tradition: Bis dahin waren alle gr\u00f6\u00dferen \u00dcberwasserkampfschiffe (\u201eMajor Surface Combatants\u201c) Eigenentwicklungen amerikanischer Werften gewesen. Ein Grund f\u00fcr diese Kehrtwende d\u00fcrfte auch in den [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":47640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,486,32],"tags":[1220,2240,8154,9890,394,10331,2410],"class_list":["post-47637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-headlines","category-magazin","tag-constellation-klasse","tag-marineruestung","tag-militaertechnik","tag-schiffbau-usa","tag-us-navy","tag-us-ruestungsindustrie","tag-verteidigungspolitik"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47637"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48967,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47637\/revisions\/48967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}