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Re. above Rear Adm. Fred Pyle, Director of Surface Warfare, N96, told Megan Eckstein Defense News on Dec. 7 re the Navy classified June 2023 Battle Force Ship Assessment and Requirement study he noted his main takeaway from the study is “the value of having numbers for small surface combatants.” “We want to build a lot of frigates and [have] somewhat smaller, very capable ships being proliferated out through the fleet ”. Navy spokesman David Clark said the study called for a 381 ship fleet. One implication is that maybe the Navy thinking of a new smaller frigate at say approx half the cost of the $1 billion Constellation though think would be a very hard sell to Congress after the unmitigated disaster of the LCS program. Re. the 2032 DDG(X) noted the importance will be its ability to remain on station longer and require less help from fleet tankers and other logistics ships, by implication a major critique of the short range of the Burkes (~3,000 nm allowing for minimum requirement of one third operational reserves) with their all gas guzzling GT propulsion system, no doubt thrown into focus by the force ship assessment study for the range required for ships operating in the 63 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean. Asked whether the study called for more frigates generally, or more frigates at the expense of larger Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, Pyle made a non-committal comment that the Navy has “that constant challenge of trying to balance” the portfolio to fit the budget.
Re. above Rear Adm. Fred Pyle, Director of Surface Warfare, N96, told Megan Eckstein Defense News on Dec. 7 re the Navy classified June 2023 Battle Force Ship Assessment and Requirement study he noted his main takeaway from the study is “the value of having numbers for small surface combatants.” “We want to build a lot of frigates and [have] somewhat smaller, very capable ships being proliferated out through the fleet ”. Navy spokesman David Clark said the study called for a 381 ship fleet.
One implication is that maybe the Navy thinking of a new smaller frigate at say approx half the cost of the $1 billion Constellation though think would be a very hard sell to Congress after the unmitigated disaster of the LCS program.
Re. the 2032 DDG(X) noted the importance will be its ability to remain on station longer and require less help from fleet tankers and other logistics ships, by implication a major critique of the short range of the Burkes (~3,000 nm allowing for minimum requirement of one third operational reserves) with their all gas guzzling GT propulsion system, no doubt thrown into focus by the force ship assessment study for the range required for ships operating in the 63 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean.
Asked whether the study called for more frigates generally, or more frigates at the expense of larger Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, Pyle made a non-committal comment that the Navy has “that constant challenge of trying to balance” the portfolio to fit the budget.
