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Old 1st May 2020, 14:24
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Asturias56
 
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A lot depends on the commercial arrangement to build them - they'll all be built in the USA - Wisconsin I believe and the FREMM design has been on the USN list for at least 3 years. There were 5 designs in the frame but only two US designs - one of those was based on an LCS (which don't seem to be flavour of the month) and the other on the Legend cutter - which is quite an old design I think.

The real money will be made fitting all those US -only bits of kit . It'll be interesting to see what the final cost is if they go-ahead with the FREMM
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