Originally Posted by GreenKnight121
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Originally Posted by CAW
Have you taken a look to the contracts signed when UK sold the Type42 destroyers to the ARA, as a quick example? (By the way, wasn´t that the last time the british naval industry sold a brand new war-ship to anyone in the world?)
A partial list:
Vospor (now BAE) - 2 1,200 ton corvettes for Oman built 1993-1997.
Yarrow (now BAE) - 2 2,300 ton corvettes for Malaysia built from the early 1990s to 1999.
BAE - 3 2,000 ton corvettes for Brunei built from 1995-200- Brunei decided to back out of the deal, a court decided BAE had fulfilled all of the contract and Brunei had to accept them, and Brunei put them up for sale - they were purchased by Indonesia.
BAE - 3 2,600 ton corvettes for Oman - last one delivered earlier this year.
BAE - 3 2,200 ton OPV for Trinidad & Tobago from 2007-2013 (T&T backed out, and the vessels were completed for Brazil).
BAE (and its Vospor subsidary) have been overseeing license-building of Vospor/BAE-designed FACs & OPVs in other nations from the early 1980s to present.
Babcock Marine are building 3 1,900 tonne Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV's) for the Irish Naval Service. The first is which, LÉ (
Long Éireannach/Irish Ship) Samuel Becket, has been delivered and is in service.
JAS