However, the Cobalt Light Frigate is best used in small packs, as a single ship won’t survive long against any significant threat. It is also very useful for chasing down larger ships such as ...

U.S. frigates under development will be lightly armed and fail to deter rivals in contested seas. Adding a tactical nuclear missile or other strategically significant strike weapon would make the ...

Greece will deploy two frigates and one more vessel off Libya's territorial waters to deter migrants from arriving at its ...

The Navy's new up-gunned Littoral Combat Ship called the Small Surface Combatant has been officially re-designated as a Frigate, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Jan. 15 at the Surface Navy ...

Norwegian frigate HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (F310). Royal Norwegian Navy Photo. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel’s recent direction to the Navy to develop proposals for a “capable and lethal small ...

Construction began in August on the first of the US Navy's Constellation-class frigates. It's the first new frigate since the last Oliver Hazard Perry-class ship was built in the late '80s. While ...

The Navy’s Constellation-class frigate program, already delayed and hampered by design and construction issues, is heading ...

While historically it is perhaps the most common large warship, the US Navy hasn't a single frigate left in its fleet for the first time since 1943 ... and it's looking for a new one. So what will ...

Then, it will have more space and workforce to focus on the frigate. Bosak said during his presentation Congress has allocated $50 million in FY23 to bolster the small surface combatant industrial ...

North Korea has recently launched two 5,000-ton, missile-armed destroyers, with two sister ships planned for next year.

It was a far cry from some of the earlier small warships that were the predecessors to the frigate, the smallest of which in the Royal Navy in 1719 couldn't use some of their potential six-pound ...