New Canadian Shipbuilding Strategy

[Oldgateboatdriver]

I love how ignorant the press is of naval matters: Yes, they do say the picture of the warship is only "representative", but for God's sake, don't take a picture of a ship that's been gone for thirty years and is not even German. That's HMS Plymouth - a Rothesay class (Type 12) frigate (before the Leanders).

The controversy surrounding her was the long time she was bounced around after decommissioning so Trust could see to her restoration as a museum ship, which eventually failed and she was sent to the breakers about 10 years ago.

I mean you just ask Google to give you pictures of "warship F126 class" and all sorts of pictures of the actual German ships pop up.

 

[Halifax Tar]

The replacement for the F126

MEKO A-200 DEU-class frigate - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[SeaKingTacco]

I see that CMS-330 made the cut in the new German frigate. Another Canadian win!

 

[Underway]

I see that CMS-330 made the cut in the new German frigate. Another Canadian win!

I think that the cut is for two reasons. First Germany needs closer to home protections, the Baltic and North sea, and a large overseas deployable ship isn't something in their strategic wheelhouse anymore.

Secondly the 126's were supposed to be AEGIS ships, massive ones at that. More hulls and a non-US combat system may be more palatable. Numbers of hulls vs bigger hulls.