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Gibbs And Cox Unveil Australian Light Frigate

Gibbs and Cox, a Leidos Company, unveiled their Australian Light Frigate (AUSLF) design for the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) rumoured Tier 2 requirement during Indo Pacific 2023.

The Australian Light Frigate is based on the design of the Taiwanese Navy’s two new light frigates, the design of which Gibbs and Cox are involved in. Naval News understands that both the AUSLF and Taiwanese designs draw heavily on the design heritage of the U.S Navy (USN) Constellation class, featuring a similar Combined Diesel-Electric and Gas (CODLAG) power and propulsion system.

The roughly 3,500 tonne frigate has been optimised for strike missions which comes with some tradeoffs in other areas. Unlike the reference Taiwanese design, which has 16 Mk. 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) cells and a main gun, the AUSLF omits the gun and instead uses the space to house 16 additional VLS cells for a total of 32 cells. These are split fifty/fifty between tactical and strike length cells for a total of 16 of each type.

https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/ind...t-frigate/

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