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| Model of the Royal Navy City-class frigate by JLawson modelmakers. |
The following image, is a photo of a model of the future Royal Navy Type 26 class (or City-class frigate), which was created by JLawson Modelmakers and was modified by me, in order to report mainly the frigates' armament configuration. The City-class frigate is a class of eight frigates being built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy. The ship design and manufacture program, known as the Global Combat Ship, was created by the UK Ministry of Defence to partially replace the navy's thirteen Type 23 frigates, and for export. It will be a multi-mission warship designed to support anti-submarine warfare, air defence and general purpose operations. The contract award to manufacture the Type 26 was announced by BAE Systems on 2 July 2017, with steel cut for the first of class, HMS Glasgow on 20 July 2017 by the Secretary of State for Defence, Sir Michael Fallon. In June 2018, the Australian Government announced that it had selected a
modified version of the Type 26 platform as the planned replacement for
its Anzac-class frigate. This will see the Royal Australian Navy procure up to nine Hunter class frigates, which will be constructed by BAE Systems Australia at ASC's shipyard in Osborne, South Australia. Yesterday, on 19 October 2018, it was announced that BAE-Lockheed Martin had been
selected as the winning bidder in the Canadian Surface Combatant program
and that the Canadian government had awarded a contract for 15 ships
worth CAD$60 billion.
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| Infographic of the future City class (Type 26) frigate of the Royal Navy. High resolution image here. |
Is there any official word that the RN is buying LRASM and ASROC or did you just include those as possibilities?
ReplyDeleteAviation Week say: "The U.S. Navy has finalized its list of countries that can purchase the AGM-158C Long Range Anti-Ship Missile. on the sidelines of the annual Air and Space Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, that the list of countries is classified but seven nations received approval.The nations that are cleared for export are “the usual suspects,” St. John said, and are major players in the Pacific.."
DeleteBro, can you upload the infographics for turkish i class frigate and tf2000 class destroyer?
ReplyDeleteVery much appreciated, thanks.
I don't think they are Chemring Centurion decoy launchers. They look like normal Sea Gnat tubes. To date I don't think Chemring has sold Centurion anywhere, which is quite incredible as it lools like a fantastic system.
ReplyDeleteSea Gnat, Artisan, Phalanx, etc. for the 2030s. The whole package sounds really bad.
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