contedicavour
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The prestigious meretmarine.com site has written that the French Navy has started 2 months ago a detailed study of a AAW variant of FREMM based on a more powerful Herakles radar (150km range), 48 VLS (the usual 32 for Aster-15 plus the 16 aft that would be used for Aster-30 instead of land-attack scalp naval), no long range radar (simply not enough space).
The plan is that the first batch of 8 approved FREMM FFGs would include 2 AAW variants to replace the 2 Cassard AAW FFGs that still use SM1 around 2018.
Italy is following a similar path (the FREMM are binational Franco-Italian but it seems the 2 countries are going at it alone in their search for a AAW variant) with the active phased array version of EMPAR.
Greece may join the French or the Italians in their search for 4 to 6 AAW FFGs.
If the cost remains around 350 million euro per ship (excl weapons and non recurrent R&D costs) then there might be a wider market...
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The plan is that the first batch of 8 approved FREMM FFGs would include 2 AAW variants to replace the 2 Cassard AAW FFGs that still use SM1 around 2018.
Italy is following a similar path (the FREMM are binational Franco-Italian but it seems the 2 countries are going at it alone in their search for a AAW variant) with the active phased array version of EMPAR.
Greece may join the French or the Italians in their search for 4 to 6 AAW FFGs.
If the cost remains around 350 million euro per ship (excl weapons and non recurrent R&D costs) then there might be a wider market...
cheers