Americas Lockheed Martin won a $114.6 million modification to exercise an option for AEGIS Combat System Engineering Agent efforts for the design, development, integration, test and delivery of Advanced Capability Build 20. The Aegis Combat System is the Navy’s most...
Americas * Sikorsky delivered six CH-148 helicopters to the Canadian government on Friday, the first of twenty-eight to replace the current fleet of Sea King ASW helicopters, with these scheduled to enter full service by 2021. * On Friday the Navy handed Northrop...
* Germany's Bundestag approved the country's federal budget for 2013 for a total of 302 billion euros, with around 33.3 billion euros for defense (~$43B), a slight increase above 2012. The country will spend as much next year servicing its sovereign debt as the...
French FREMM concept(click to view full) On Oct 30/09, the EU's OCCAR defense procurement agency, which manages the Franco-Italian FREMM project, issues an order to DCNS for 3 more Aquitaine class FREMM frigates on behalf of France's Navy. The 3 ships will include 2...
Italian FREMM(click to view full) The Franco-Italian FREMM (FREgate Multi Mission or FREgata Multi Missione) program is designed to create an affordable and somewhat flexible naval combatant that offers good to very good performance in the 3 key fleet roles of...
FREMM concept(click to view full) "Dogfight at the Casbah: Rafale vs. F-16" noted the dwindling odds of a Rafale fighter sale to Morocco, but reported rumors that Morocco would purchase one of the new 142m, 6,000t Franco-Italian FREMM frigates for about EUR 500...
FREMM drawing(click to view full) DID has covered the Franco-Italian FREMM multi-role frigate project in the past. While discussing one of the program's rockier periods, we noted the Italian push for the cheaper but lower-performance Avio LM2500 turbine (GE CF6-6...
FREMM drawing(click to view full) DID has covered the roles of the various organizations active in European defense integration efforts, from the EDA (EU's European Defense Agency) to the OCCAR (The Organisation for Joint Armament Cooperation). We also covered the...
FREMM Concept On October 17, 2005, DID noted that the Franco-Italian FREMM multi-role frigate program was on the rocks due to the Italian government's failure to include their required EUR 400 million contributions in their FY 2006 budget. Unwillingness to re-open the...
FREMM Concept DID has noted past issues with the bi-national Franco-Italian FREMM (Fregate Europeene Multi-Mission) program, a variant of the Horizon Class air defense frigate. Now the FREMM program has its Memorandum of Understanding delayed again, and may even risk...