08.09.2022, 11:28
Zitat:New Babcock contracts advance Poland's Miecznik frigate programmehttps://www.janes.com/defence-news/naval...-programme
UK-based engineering and services group Babcock has been awarded two new contracts intended to pave the way for in-country build of Poland's Miecznik (Swordfish) frigates to start in 2023.
Babcock – bidding a variant of its Arrowhead 140 design – was selected earlier in 2022 as the platform design provider and technology partner for the three-ship Miecznik programme. Arrowhead 140 forms the basis for the UK Royal Navy's (RN's) new Type 31 frigate.
In a 7 September statement, Babcock said that the class design contract and the transfer of knowledge and skills (TOKAT) framework agreement “respectively support the further development of the programme and the enhancement of shipbuilding capability in Poland to deliver Miecznik to schedule”. All three frigates are to be built in Poland [...].
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