Reuben James-class Frigate

The Reuben James-class is a class of multi-mission guided-missile frigates for the United States Navy, to be contracted from 2020, as a follow-on to the modular Freedom and Independence class littoral combat ships. The FFG(X) was announced in a United States Department of Defense Request For Information (RFI) on July 10th, 2017. Designs from ten shipbuilders are competing to be selected for the proposed twenty FFG(X) guided-missile frigates. On April 30th 2020, it was announced that the Fincantieri-Marinette Marine proposal had been selected as the FFG(X) design.

Specifications

 * Characteristics:
 * Length: 496 feet (151.18 meters)
 * Beam: 65 feet (19.81 meters)
 * Draft: 26 feet (7.93 meters)
 * Displacement: 6,600 tons
 * Crew: 140-200
 * Propulsion: CODLAG
 * Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,112 kilometers) at 16 knots (29.63 km/h)
 * Speed: 26+ knots (48.15 km/h)
 * Sensor Suite:
 * COMBATASS-21 Combat Management System
 * AN/SPY-6(V)3 Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar
 * AN/SPS-73(V)18 Surface Search Radar
 * Mk.20 Electro-Optical Gun Fire Control System
 * AN/SLQ-61 Towed Array Sonar
 * AN/SQS-62 Variable Depth Sonar
 * AN/SQQ-89F Undersea/Anti-Submarine Warfare Combat System
 * UPX-29 IFF Interrogator System
 * Countermeasures:
 * AN/SLQ-32(V)6 SEWIP Electronic Warfare Suite
 * AN/SLQ-25 Nixie towed torpedo decoy
 * Mk.53 Nulka decoy launcher
 * Armament
 * 1 x 57mm/70-caliber Mk.110 naval gun
 * 1 x 32-cell Mk.41 VLS (fires RIM-66X SM-2MR Blk.IIIC, RUM-139 VL-ASROC, RIM-162 ESSM, RIM-174 SM-6)
 * 4 x Mk.141 AShM Launcher (fires RGM-184 Naval Strike Missile)
 * 1 x 24-cell VLS (fires RGM-114L Hellfire and RGM-176 Griffin)
 * 1 x Mk.49 Missile Launchers (fires RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles)
 * Aircraft Carried: 1 x Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk maritime helicopter and 1 x MQ-8C Fire Scout UAV
 * Boats Carried: 2 x Rigid-hull inflatable boats

Contenders

 * Atlas North America - MEKO A-200USN
 * Austal USA - Independence-class frigate
 * BAe Systems - Type 26 Global Combat Ship
 * CSC - Calgary-class
 * Fincantieri Naval Group-Marinette Marine - FREMM frigate - selected as the winning design
 * Huntington Ingalls Industries - NSC frigate
 * Hyundai Heavy Industries - FFX-III
 * Lockheed Martin-Marinette Marine - Freedom-class frigate
 * Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Akizuki-class
 * Navantia-General Dynamics - Álvaro de Bazán-class

Unit Run

 * USS Reuben James (FFG-62) - planned for construction
 * USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG-63) - planned for construction
 * USS Johnston (FFG-64) - planned for construction
 * USS Heermann (FFG-65) - planned for construction
 * USS William D. Porter (FFG-66) - planned for construction
 * USS O'Bannon (FFG-67) - planned for construction
 * USS Hoel (FFG-68) - planned for construction
 * USS Wainwright (FFG-69) - planned for construction
 * USS Laffey (FFG-70) - planned for construction
 * USS Cassin (FFG-71) - planned for construction
 * USS Downes (FFG-72) - planned for construction
 * USS Shaw (FFG-73) - planned for construction
 * USS McClusky (FFG-74) - planned for construction
 * USS Thach (FFG-75) - planned for construction
 * USS Willis A. Lee (FFG-76) - planned for construction
 * USS Hull (FFG-77) - planned for construction
 * USS Somers (FFG-78) - planned for construction
 * USS Turner Joy (FFG-79) - planned for construction
 * USS English (FFG-80) - planned for construction
 * USS Warrington (FFG-81) - planned for construction