Fully equipped, an Iver Huitfeldt frigate costs the equivalent of $340 million, Rear Adm. Olsen said.

A total of 20 frigates will be delivered if the contract runs its course; the first ship will cost about $1.3 billion, with the price for future ships dropping to below $950 million.The FFG(X) will differ from the French and Italian FREMMs in a few meaningful ways. The new frigates cannot be delivered late and over-budget, only to sit around, working their leisurely way towards full combat capability sometime around 2030. decade, spanning from academia to the defense industry. If the shipbuilder runs into problems with cost on an easily-upgraded ship, it is far simpler for the Navy to short needed “government-furnished equipment” and allow the shipyard to deliver a functional but “bare-bones” hull seemingly “at cost.” In essence, the Navy gets a workable hull, but it is an incomplete warship, unready for warfighting. Poor early-procurement estimating, however, does come back to haunt America. Yet the tonnage even increased is a very large percentage lighter. Draft is reduced from 24 to 23 feet, but only because there is no bow mounted sonar, so … The Navy, of course, is already likely eying the FREMM’s commodious margin for additional warfighting capability—all at additional cost. It is outfitted mainly with Russian electronics and weapons, some of which have been substituted with Chinese copies. The already large FREMM frigate grows to 7,400 tons and 496 feet in length, an increase of “more than 500 tons” (700 tons according to Wikipedia) and 22 feet in length. In my spare time, I support think-tank studies, All 10 Italian FREMM-ITs have extended AAW capabilities, with SAAM-ESD CMS, Aster 30 and Aster 15 missiles for extended area defence. Those governments offered to guarantee the cost of the 15 ships at a fixed $30 billion, but … The DRS 1.7MW shaft mounted motor being fitted to the Korean FFX-II class frigates which assuming to be used on the FFG in tandem per shaft. If their estimates turned out to be wrong, they won’t care. It is entirely possible that they may need to escort convoys with a base speed of 18 knots or more, which would require them to operate almost continuously on their one turbine engine which would seriously degrade their range. It’s as if the FFGX design specs were locked in decades ago and can’t budge even with the changing threat times.Maybe it is this way to have a ship at cost and then increase the capabilities in future batchesLeonardo DRS at SNA2020 stating that they would be supplying HED system for Fincantieri FREMM-FFG(X), assuming they will they use tandem shaft mounted 1.7MW electric drive motors develeped for HED Burke (since cancelled), giving 3.4MW per shaft, total 6.8MW to give the necessary power for 16 knots cruise with 7,400t ship.The Offshore Patrol Cutters are also going to have electric motors. The contract also includes plans for up to nine more ships from the firm -- a deal that's ultimately worth more than $5.5 billion. A third anti-air warfare variant of FREMM was proposed by DCNS in response to French requirements for a new air-defence frigate, the new variant became known as FREDA ("As of 2009, the FREDA design features a more powerful version of the At Euronaval 2012 DCNS showed a new concept called FREMM-ER for the FREDA requirement, again based on the FREMM, but specifically mentioning the ballistic missile defence mission as well as anti-air. GE loves to use the rating at 59 and Rolls uses the Navy rating at 100. The frigates are 140m in length and 20m wide with a 6,000t displacement. There was talk - pre crisis - of Greece buying FREMM frigates from France. In the Italian ships, that consists of four diesel generators totaling roughly 15,000 HP, two electric propulsion motors totaling 5 MW or about 6700 HP, plus an LM2500 gas turbine rated at 32 MW or about 42,895 HP. are those Russian Frigates?I can’t see the USN not switching to MTU diesels instead of the Italian diesels. But then again, the artist rendering may be that of the “Lead Ship” as fitted, and not the actual commissioned vessels after Fleet Testing…It would not take much to add a couple of 25mm Mk38 mod 2/3 in lieu of a machine gun mount.Do you know if that diagram is a sort of “official” Navy graphic, or just an illustration by an independent artist? It will be interesting to see when its commissioned.The size is just a few percent under a ddg-51. SAAM-ESD CMS use Leonardo MFRA, a 3D active radar (AESA), an evolved version of the Leonardo Since the 7th FREMM-IT, there will be updates, such as new conformal IFF antenna and much more stealth response. In December 2017, the French and Italian governments proposed a plan in which Canada could build the FREMM frigate at Irving. They did their job—developing an estimate that magically priced out the new frigate to barely half the cost of a brand new Flight III There is no penalty for low-balling a procurement estimate. He would have gotten information from the Navy and/or the Shipyard.Ok looking at those drawings the distance from the top of the vls to the keel is 12 m (39.37 feet) so a Strike legth vls fit, also the distance from the vls to the start of the bridge structure is 4.68 m (15.35 feet) and ftom the vls to the rear of the 57 mm gun is 5.25 m (17.22 f)I am concerned the mk 41 will be tactical length based on how the FFG(X) mk41 price is noticably lower per launcher than the DDG price in the budget.The ship is being designed and equipped to a price point.