Browsing: Frigates

Early in the morning on Wednesday, August 12th, Ukrainian drones savaged Russian warships and supporting infrastructure at the Black Sea Fleet’s reactivated main port, Novorossiysk, striking…

Denmark’s DALO awards Rheinmetall a contract for five MASS decoy launchers to retrofit Absalon-class and Iver Huitfeldt-class frigates, including 20-year support. By Waldemar Geiger / hartpunkt…

On July 20, 2026, Portugal’s defence ministry announced that it signed an agreement with Italy for the procurement of three new-generation frigates for the Portuguese Navy.…

While the German Bundestag’s Budget Committee did approve the procurement of four MEKO A-200 DEU frigates today, it has attached conditions to this authorization due to…

The German Ministry of Defense has decided to discontinue the construction of six F126-class frigates, as the ministry announced in a recent statement. The cancellation is…

The German Navy’s F125 (Baden-Württemberg-class) frigates, which have so far been extremely poorly armed in terms of air defense, are to receive a significant capability upgrade…

The Swedish Luleå-class frigate-programme has taken a significant step forward with today’s announcement from the deck of the Visby-class corvette Härnösand that the FDI-frigate will become…

The Dutch Ministry of Defence intends to procure new air defense frigates to replace the ships of the “De Zeven Provinciën” class. In spring 2024, the…

The three Zumwalt-class destroyers currently in service with the U.S. Navy could receive radar systems initially produced for the cancelled Constellation-class frigates. A Raytheon executive told…

In an interview with Naval News, Vice President for naval programs at Thales Defense & Security Inc. RADM Tony Lengerich (Ret.) and Vice President for strategy…