20.11.2004, 12:50
Es sieht so aus als ob das FSC Programm eingestellt wird unbd man statt dessen mehr T45 und als low version eine Corvettenklasse kauft.
Zitat:By ANDREW CHUTER, LONDON
Britain’s Ministry of Defence announced Nov. 19 that it dropped plans to build up to 14 warships to replace the fleet of Type 23 frigates now in service with the Royal Navy. The government had planned to move to the assessment phase of the program to build the Future Surface Combatant (FSC) next year.
Now the MoD is reconsidering its options. The first of the warships had been planned to enter service around 2012. An MoD spokesman said uncertainties regarding future Royal Navy operations, the maturity of emerging technologies and industry/government efforts to pull together a long-term warship building strategy had all affected the decision.
The British may be looking at splitting the FSC requirement in two, an industry source said. The Defence Procurement Agency recently asked industry for design ideas for what it called a “global corvette.” The source said the Royal Navy may go for a combination of the corvette and a variant of the 7,500-metric-ton Type 45 destroyer now under development
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