Frigate Manning and Maintenance

For years, now, the Navy has been complaining that manpower was too costly and, indeed, the Navy embarked on an unwise, misguide…

The New Frigate - A Knee Jerk Reaction

The Navy is well along the path of acquiring a new frigate.   Well, it’s more of a mini-Burke than a frigate.   Before we celebra…

Type 26 Global Combat Ship

Here in the US there is a strong tendency to view everything foreign as superior to everything native.   Foreign weapon systems o…

Norwegian Frigate Sinking Lessons

We previously discussed the collision and sinking of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad (see, “ Sensors – What Good Are They? ”)…

Roles - The Frigate

Why do we have or want frigates today? Sadly, the most accurate answer is probably just because we’ve always had them. We’re goin…

Frigate News

Here’s some interesting news about the Navy’s proposed new frigate.  As regular readers know well, ComNavOps is dead set against …

Supertanker Frigate

An issue of Proceedings has a short article by Dr. William Stearman in which he proposes a new Navy warship based on a super tank…

ASW Corvette

Well, the frigate debate is on!  Observers are weighing in with their favorite candidates for the Navy’s frigate competition.  He…

Lockheed Proposed Frigate

Lockheed Martin recently displayed their US Navy frigate concept at the DSEI trade show in the form of a concept model (1). The r…

Frigate Budget

Let’s continue our budget data examination.  Here’s some budget numbers on the new LCS frigate from the 2019 initial frigate cons…

Frigate? That's A Battleship!

The cry from observers for the US Navy to build a frigate is incessant and deafening.  Further, most observers want the frigate t…

Frigate RFI

The Navy has released its Request for Information (RFI) related to the frigate it apparently wants to acquire in place of the LCS…