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HII Still Interested As Frigate Second Yard, Possibly LSM Amphibs Too

Wednesday, June 28th, 2023

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HII Still Interested As Frigate Second Yard, Possibly LSM Amphibs Too

Artist model of the Fincantieri Marinette Marine Constellation-class guided-missile frigate. (Image: Department of Defense)

An HII Ingalls Shipbuilding [HII] official this week confirmed the company is still interested in potentially being a second shipbuilder for the new Constellation-class frigate program as well the Landing Ship Medium (LSM) program, formerly called the Light Amphibious Warship (LAW). “The facility itself has excess capacity right now. We put over a billion dollars in the shipyard of the future initiatives that we did and we just completed last year. So the facility within the shipyard has the capacity…

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