After a 35-year break, the US Navy is building frigates again, and it has a lot of catching up to do

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USS Ingraham, the last Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate built for the US, returns from its last deployment in November 2014. US Navy/MCS2 Jeffry A. Willadsen Construction began on the first of the US Navy's new Constellation-class frigates in August 2022. It's the first new frigate since the last Oliver Hazard Perry-class ship was built in the late 1980s. While the US is back in the frigate game, some navies, including Russia's and China's, never left. Last summer, the shipbuilder Fincantieri Marinette Marine began construction on the US Navy's first Constellation-class frigate, making the first cut of steel at its Wisconsin...