Romania per costruire 6 fregate per i Paesi Bassi e il Belgio
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/romania-to-build-6-frigates-for-the-netherlands-and-belgium/
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Romania per costruire 6 fregate per i Paesi Bassi e il Belgio
https://militarnyi.com/en/news/romania-to-build-6-frigates-for-the-netherlands-and-belgium/
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It’s Damen Shipyards Galati that builds these frigates and is part of the Dutch company Damen Shipyards Group
I really hope the specs for that frigate listed on Wikipedia are wrong, because I can’t make sense of building a frigate with the displacement of a destroyer but the firepower of a corvette.
A ship that’s supposed to displace over 6,500 tons should at least have 48 vertical launch cells to carry long-range SAMs and cruise missiles , not just 16.
With only 16 VLS cells, the ship would be limited to short-range point defense missiles, which is a serious underuse of its size and capabilities.
Shits gonna come with missing pieces
My first instinct was to shout why. Why not support your local (Belgium and Dutch) shipyards. But then the article stated it was Damen so that settled me down. Then I kept reading and the only thing I’m now thinking is that Europe needs to come up with a viable alternative to the NH90, before realising it isn’t the SH60.
Not my best day and a great news article.
So the only news worthy thing in this article is that they will start building this summer? Because the fact the Dutch and Belgians ordered these ships and that they would be built in Romania has been known for years.
Good to see all kinds of eu-eu cooperation
Are those for short range coastal patrolling?