If you read down to the chart that shows the laid down to commissioning it takes 11 years for them to build a Suffren class submarine. I don't think that is an option for us but if we get the K-III with the vertical launch maybe we can get them to modify to allow French missiles that would have...
If we are lucky we will get maybe six of these it would be a nice upgrade to the MCVD's :
https://www.baesystems.com/en/feature/introducing-the-royal-navyrsquos-new-offshore-patrol-vessels
This a interview I just watched, and I am not sure if it has been posted before and most of us agree with the content just the public seems to have their heads in the ground and government seem not to want to do anything about it...
I say when and if we purchase 12 KSS-III submarines we add four or six of these:
South Korea kicks off FFX Batch-IV frigate program - Naval News
I bet they would have them built before our first River Class Destroyer is ready.
How many more freedom class ships are going to be built and would it be better to so a deal to get those and the four best and refit those for a interm replacement between city class and river class.
Well if we go KSS III submarines we should look at there FFX batch IV frigates
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/12/hanwha-ocean-to-build-first-two-ffx-batch-iv-frigates/
I am of the mind to tell Irving shipbuilding that if they cannot supply this vessel in a timely period of time that they allow another ship yard to proceed as we will have almost no Halifax frigates still floating by the time they have only a few of the type 26 River class destroyers.
DCNS unveiled a model of a small version of the standard Mistral BPC 210 ship called the Mistral 140. Compared to the full-sized ship's 21,500 tons displacement and 199 m (653 ft) length with six helicopter landing spots, the 140 would have a displacement of 14,000 tons, 170 m (560 ft) long...
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