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The US Navy built the Constellation frigate to avoid its last shipbuilding disaster — then cancelled all but 2 of 20 after wasting billions
As the French fabulist and poet Jean de la Fontaine once wrote, “a person often meets his destiny on the road he took to ...
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The Navy canceled the Constellation-class frigate after it added 500 tons to its own design
Cost overruns, production complications, changing requirements, and substantial design flaws are among the reasons the once-promising Constellation-class Frigate came to an abrupt end. This ...
Fincantieri Marinette Marine, the US subsidiary of Italian shipbuilding giant Fincantieri, was also in charge of the recently canceled Constellation-class frigate. The United States Navy doesn’t have ...
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