New warships announcement

[vic mcclymont]

Cammel Laird & Bae Systems have announced a partnership to design and build the next generation of warships.the first five 31e type frigates will be built by Cammel Laird.
Bae Systems will design the weapons systems.
Regards
Vic

[Lewis McColl]

Great news for Merseyside, and to think Wirral Council wanted to bulldoze Lairds a few years ago to build houses on the site.

[robpage]

the TYPE 31 light frigate is 1/5 th of the cost of TYPE 26 , buy 1 get 4 free that is £275,000,000 - £35,000,000 each , which was the cost of TYPE 26 at the design stage

[Keith at Tregenna]

Though on a different scale the latest Irish Naval ship is at

56% build completion at the Appledore Shipyard in North Devon.

[vic mcclymont]

Type 31e is somewhere between an OPV and a fully fledged Frigate.
Vic

[robpage]

Corvette then !

[happy daze john in oz]

Corvette then !

Not the little red one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!