FREMM Frigates for the US Navy? (if it survives the lawsuits maybe!)

[Sailor.X]

Frankly, I'm just glad we're getting some not-people names in the fleet. The Navy's ship naming has gotten downright incestous, and left a ton of memorable names by the wayside.

Um it is tradition for Small Boys to be named after Famous Navy and Marine Corps personnel.

 

[Harlock]

Disappointed you are paying for them. Normally if an Anglo Navy wants a French Frigate they just take it at Cutlass point.
How far the Apple has fallen

 

[Sailor.X]

Disappointed you are paying for them. Normally if an Anglo Navy wants a French Frigate they just take it at Cutlass point.
How far the Apple has fallen

Blame the Khitomer Accords. We have to abide by them. We can't relive the old days of the Klingon Empire Colonial Days.

 

[Harlock]

Blame the Khitomer Accords. We have to abide by them. We can't relive the old days of the Klingon Empire Colonial Days.

Hard work and no fun being the good guys

 

[Tiamat]

Hard work and no fun being the good guys

Well, somebody has to say it....

 

[gral]

Disappointed you are paying for them. Normally if an Anglo Navy wants a French Frigate they just take it at Cutlass point.
How far the Apple has fallen

It's the Italian version of the ship. In fact, if what I heard is true, DCMS lost the opportunity to make a lot of money from this contract, by their own fault.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Um it is tradition for Small Boys to be named after Famous Navy and Marine Corps personnel.

True enough but at least the USN is still naming destroyers after said personnel and will for foreseeable future.

 

[History Learner]

Huntington Ingalls had the better design with their patrol Frigate based on the National Security Cutter IMHO.

 

[Sailor.X]

Huntington Ingalls had the better design with their patrol Frigate based on the National Security Cutter IMHO.

I think the Navy should build some of those too. It would help add to the 500 ship Navy number.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Huntington Ingalls had the better design with their patrol Frigate based on the National Security Cutter IMHO.

Perhaps but Huntington Ingalls already has a fair bit of work and the USN and the Pentagon in general desperately wants to maintain its industrial base which is also why the F-15x is in large part being procured

 

[ShadowArxxy]

Looks at the Fremm Fig.......... Every Engineman in A Gang is cursing under his breath right now. About working on bastardized Euro tech.

The FREMM actually uses the same GE LM2500 gas turbine as the vast majority of US Navy warships.

 

[Aaron Fox]

True enough but at least the USN is still naming destroyers after said personnel and will for foreseeable future.

Well, it's a long-honored tradition for the USN in that regard. Most of the USN destroyers were named by DD and other smaller vessel captains. Mahan, Fletcher, Benson, Burke, Zummwalt... all of whom are captains of such small vessels of their day.

 

[Knowledgeispower]

Well, it's a long-honored tradition for the USN in that regard. Most of the USN destroyers were named by DD and other smaller vessel captains. Mahan, Fletcher, Benson, Burke, Zummwalt... all of whom are captains of such small vessels of their day.

To be fair until the advent of the frigate most Admiral's first sea command was a DD and even now that's still the case for a decent chunk of them