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USS Coronado (LCS 4) transits the Bohol Sea on 23 June during an exercise with the Philippine Navy. Coronado was the first LCS platform to deploy with an over-the-horizon anti-ship capability of a four-cell launcher containing Boeing RGM-84D Harpoon Block 1C missiles. The USN may be looking to increase the lethality and survivability of other LCS/frigates with similar improvements as it transitions to its final Future Frigate design. Source: US Navy/Deven Leigh Ellis
Key Points
- Factors include more challenging threats and Future Frigate relevancy to a distributed maritime operational concept
- USN will look to build LCSs continuously until Future Frigate delivery in 2024
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Admiral John Richardson and acting secretary of the navy Sean Stackley explained that by the time the USN defined the requirements for the Future Frigate, worked with industry to find out what is possible technologically and within cost and schedule, defined potential risk, started design, and requested proposals in 2018 that an award by 2020 was "an aggressive target".
"We would expect industry to complete their detailed design. It'll take them a year, year and a half, to complete their detailed design while they order material, [and then] about a three-year build span," said Stackley on 15 June. "So we would expect the frigate to be in the water, ready for delivery in the 2024 time frame."
"We don't want to take on the risk that they took on in the LCS programme with this: [establishing] non-realistic schedules and a procedure when design was not mature," Stackley added.
Adm Richardson also stated that the previous Future Frigate acquisition strategy changed due to "more challenging" threats and the USN's desire for the frigate to be "relevant in a distributed maritime operational concept" as well as changes in the fiscal environment that have caused the USN to "re-address the requirements for the frigate".
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