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: 6,112 tons (Light); 7,408 tons (Full Load)
*Crew: 140-200
*Propulsion: CODLAG
**General Electric LM2500+G4 gas turbines, 48,700 shp
*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
SAS Spioenkop during Exercise IBSAMAR V.jpg|MEKO A-200
JS Fuyuzuki (DD-118).jpg|Akizuki-class
SPS Roger de Lauria F105.jpg|Alvaro de Bazan-class
Calgaryclass update.png|Calgary-class
ITS Bergamini (F590).JPG|FREMM frigate
OXAF2r6.jpg|HHI FFX-III frigate
Lockheed Martin FFG X.jpg|Freedom-class frigate
AustalFrigate.jpg|Austal frigate
Type26GCS.jpg|Type 26 Global Combat Ship
==Unit Run==
===United States Navy===
*USS Reuben James (FFG-62) - under 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
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Category:Frigates
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