More details on all that is included in the Saudi Arabia Frigate Deal:
In addition to the ships themselves, the $11.25 billion deal includes:
Also included in this sale in support of the MMSC are:
- Study, design and construction of operations;
- Support and training facilities;
- Spare and repair parts;
- Support and test equipment;
- Communications equipment employing Link 16 equipment;
- Fire Control System/Ceros 200 Sensor and Illuminator;
- 20mm Narwhal Gun;
- Nixie AN/SLQ-25A Surface Ship Torpedo Defense System;
- MK-32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes;
- WBR-2000 Electronic Support Measure and Threat Warning System;
- Automatic Launch of Expendables (ALEX) Chaff and Decoy-Launching System;
- ARC-210 Radios; Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System
- Automated Digital Network System;
- Personnel training and training equipment;
- U.S. Government and contractor engineering,
- Technical and logistics support services
- U.S. Government and contractor engineering,
- Technical and logistics support.
Very comprehensive package for these vessels.
In addition to the ships themselves, the $11.25 billion deal includes:
- Four (4) MMSC ships (a derivative of the Freedom Variant of the U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Class) that incorporate five (5) COMBATSS-21 Combat Management Systems (four (4) installed, one (1) spare) with five (5) TRS-4D Radars (four (4) installed, one (1) spare)
- Five (5) Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) (Mode 4- and Mode 5-capable) UPX-29 (four (4) installed, one (1) spare)
- Five (5) Compact Low Frequency Active Passive Variable Depth Sonar (four (4) installed, one (1) spare)
- Eight (8) MK-41 Vertical Launch Systems (VLS) (two (2) eight-cell assemblies per ship for 16 cells per hull)
- Five-hundred thirty-two (532) tactical RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSM) (one hundred twenty-eight (128) installed, twenty (20) test and training rounds, three hundred eighty-four (384) spares)
- Five (5) AN/SWG-l (V) Harpoon Ship Command Launch Control Systems (four (4) installed (one (1) per ship), one (1) spare)
- Eight (8) Harpoon Shipboard Launchers (two (2) installed four-tube assemblies per ship)
- Forty-eight (48) RGM-84 Harpoon Block II Missiles (thirty-two (32) installed, sixteen (16) test and training rounds)
- Five (5) MK-15 Mod 31 SeaRAM Close-In Weapon System (CIWS) (four (4) installed, one (1) spare)
- One-hundred eighty-eight (188) RIM 116C Block II Rolling Airframe Missiles (RAM) (forty-four (44) installed, twelve (12) test and training rounds, one hundred thirty-two (132) spares)
- Five (5) MK-75 76mm OTO Melara Gun Systems (four (4) installed, one (1) spare)
- Forty-eight (48) 50-caliber machine guns (forty (40) installed (ten (10) per ship), eight (8) spares); ordnance; and Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) Global Positioning System/Precise Positioning Service (GPS/PPS) navigation equipment
Also included in this sale in support of the MMSC are:
- Study, design and construction of operations;
- Support and training facilities;
- Spare and repair parts;
- Support and test equipment;
- Communications equipment employing Link 16 equipment;
- Fire Control System/Ceros 200 Sensor and Illuminator;
- 20mm Narwhal Gun;
- Nixie AN/SLQ-25A Surface Ship Torpedo Defense System;
- MK-32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tubes;
- WBR-2000 Electronic Support Measure and Threat Warning System;
- Automatic Launch of Expendables (ALEX) Chaff and Decoy-Launching System;
- ARC-210 Radios; Combined Enterprise Regional Information Exchange System
- Automated Digital Network System;
- Personnel training and training equipment;
- U.S. Government and contractor engineering,
- Technical and logistics support services
- U.S. Government and contractor engineering,
- Technical and logistics support.
Very comprehensive package for these vessels.
