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LOL I hope
shen
will read this part:
The C-band radar will take the form of four fixed arrays mounted on the topside.

In the full version, that radar will combine with an X-band radar, also using four fixed arrays, creating a total of eight arrays on the topside.

Both radars will rely on the same architecture, or "one brain," as an industry manager put it, to create a single, dual-band radar, with the X-band focusing on coastal and surface surveillance and the C-band offering longer range coverage.
 

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Again some stuff to report here.
Italy has signed the contracts for the two remaining FREMMs, they are #9 & 10, as planned.
Their service is still 5 years away. After ASW and GP variants, those last to GP variant iterations will have a dedicated AAW & ATBM capability. They will have an A70 VLS and an evolved EMPAR radar.

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In other news, Lithuania may get 12 used german PzH 2000s.

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Again some stuff to report here.
Italy has signed the contracts for the two remaining FREMMs, they are #9 & 10, as planned.

After ASW and GP variants, those last to GP variant iterations will have a dedicated AAW & ATBM capability. They will have an A70 VLS and an evolved EMPAR radar.
More GREAT news.

Been waiting for this.

Glad to see Italy stepping up and getting all ten vessels.

With two carriers, having the two Horizon DDGs and these two FREMM AAW FFGs wil ensure that they always have adequate AAW escorts.
 

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Naval Today said:
The second of a total of four 125 class frigates for the German Navy is to be christened “Nordrhein-Westfalen” today at the Hamburg site of ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.

Following the christening of the first frigate “Baden-Württemberg” in December 2013 this is a further important milestone in the shipbuilding program for this frigate class. The frigate “Nordrhein-Westfalen” is scheduled to be handed over to the German defense procurement agency BAAINBw in mid-2018.

The contract for the four frigates is worth around two billion euros in total.

The four 125 class frigates will replace the German Navy’s eight 122 Bremen class frigates.

The ships were developed specially for current and future mission scenarios. In addition to the traditional tasks of national and alliance defense, the 125 class frigates are designed for conflict prevention, crisis management, and international intervention and stabilization missions. The ships are capable of remaining at sea for 24 months and will be the first to implement the intensive use principle, i.e. significantly enhanced availability in the area of operation. This capability is supported by a reduced crew size and a two-crew strategy under which the crew can be swapped out on location.

Prior to launch and christening, here was a high-res picture of the first one, F222, Baden-Württemberg outiffintg, while F223, Nordrhein-Westfalen, was preparing to come off the ways in the background.

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Nice stuff.
 
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We've talked about these before.

They displace 7,200 tons and are really destroyers IMHO.

8 x Long Range ASMs
1 x 127mm DP main Gun (Vulcan)
2 x 27mm remote controlled autocannons
5 x 12.7mm remote control machine guns
2 x 12.7mm manually controlled machine guns
2 x RAM Block II CIWS (21 missiles each)
2 x Hangers/pad for NH-90 Helos

Lots of capability and lots of room for future growth.

They seem light on the AAW defense side...but with the three AAW Sachsens, they should be okay.

Having four replace eight seems a little of a stretch to me.

These are larger and more room for growth, but the vessels they are replacing were well armed themselves.

Anyhow, these will be very nice and capable vessels.

Here's some more pics of F222, , Baden-Württemberg:


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We've talked about these before.

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yes, and I've "engaged" them :) that's what I usually do to under-armed warships LOL
... but to me the most interesting part in the
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The ships are capable of remaining at sea for 24 months and will be the first to implement the intensive use principle, i.e. significantly enhanced availability in the area of operation. This capability is supported by a reduced crew size and a two-crew strategy under which the crew can be swapped out on location.

makes me wonder where the Deutsche Marine would like to hang around for a whole year

EDIT
Jeff, what
room for growth
do you envision for them please? I mean I didn't see anything FFBNW ... but I checked just wiki and
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(which is vague:
The FuWES system has an open and modular structure allowing flexibility to accommodate future additional or modified systems.
but I of course might miss something)
 
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The FuWES system has an open and modular structure allowing flexibility to accommodate future additional or modified systems.
That says it.

Of course at this point they are vague.

But they want to be able to make these expensive warships last for decades and making them modular and capable of accepting new systems in the future will do so...just like the US does.

I expect they could fit new guns, new missiles (including VLS), new sensors, etc. You have to design your vessel with the idea that you are going to do that in order to make those kind of things happen.

Things as simple as making sure that the raceways that carry the cabling are wider than you need now...or that you have space to add additional ones...are the types of things you would need to ensure you have done.
 
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