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To be fair until the advent of the frigate most Admiral's first sea command was a DD and even now that's still the case for a decent chunk of them

Perhaps but Huntington Ingalls already has a fair bit of work and the USN and the Pentagon in general desperately wants to maintain its industrial base which is also why the F-15x is in large part being procured

True enough but at least the USN is still naming destroyers after said personnel and will for foreseeable future.

Welp for those of you who didn't already know, the FFG(x) will henceforth be known as the Constellation class with lead ship obviously being named as such. Here's the announcement video:

Give me a second and I'll go post the link edit: from USNI news https://news.usni.org/2020/06/03/navy-receives-no-protests-over-ffgx-frigate-award-to-fincantieri-detail-design-process-begins

Glorious news, the FREMM design wasn't challenged during the required time period and so the work can proceed

I still think they should have spent the estimated $25 million(and an extra 200 tons) per hull and given it 48 VLS tubes thus increasing its weapon capacity by 50% for a very reasonable price. At the same time I'd have kept the main gun as the same one the Italians use of course the Bofors 57mm...

I'm assuming that the design proposed to the USN already had such changes made, which is probably where two of three hundred tons of its increased displacement over the FREMM came from