The Main-Armament Level Of Warships Entering Service

Yesterday at 8:41 AM

Jura said:

now became aware of
#537 erlen, Today at 2:15 AM
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and while drinking my early morning coffee I can see two VLS arrays with 4*8 cells in each, and four quadruple launchers of presumably AShMs, so
64+16=80 tubes would make her properly armed according to me considering the displacement of 7k, but let's wait and see if they ever build

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now noticed in Twitter ():

anyone has any idea what's this design:


kinda impressive bulwark:


source is the tweet

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Aselsan Deniz Sistemleri Teknoloji Gösterim Konsepti gemisi TF-2023 120m 4000 ton deplasman.

21 minutes ago

Jura said:

Yesterday at 8:41 AM
now noticed in Twitter (

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now this view:

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Saturday at 10:18 PM

Jura said:

lightly armed but I like the Italians LOL so:
FFG(X)-SAS

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apparently an

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sales pitch

so far Italian-FREMM-export-variants lost everywhere they tried, purtroppo

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unveiled their proposal for the US Navy today at Sea Air Space outside Washington. The ship is based on the Italian FREMM frigate.

I hope you didn't get to forget about the Navantia frigate too on the same show.

Saturday at 10:18 PM

Jura said:

lightly armed but I like the Italians LOL so:
FFG(X)-SAS

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apparently an

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sales pitch

so far Italian-FREMM-export-variants lost everywhere they tried, purtroppo

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now noticed ():


what's missing is an info about the amount of wine and pasta on board LOL

seriously, liked two Seahawks:

Navantia's turn to show off its FFG(X) design. The ships don't look that differently from Fincantieri's as the USN has already decided what sensors and weapons you're going to put in, leaving the hull as the main differentiator.

Why are the other ship models missing the bow sonar? This one didn't forget it.

To sumerize

Lockheed evolved LCS design for FFG(X) seen in 2018:


Fincantieri FFG(x) design based on the FREMM class:



Austal USA's model of their supersized Independence class Littoral Combat Ship-turned FFG(x) was also on display:

Navantia's turn to show off its FFG(X) design, based on the F-110 class:


only one left, Huntington Ingalls FFG(X) design, we still have yet to see a mature configuration either in model or rendering form