A little over five years ago, in 2019, the contract award for the build of five new Type 31 frigates for the UK Royal Navy was announced, the culmination of years of competition that saw a range ...

The design, based on the Danish Iver Huitfeldt class, has also been sold to Poland and Indonesia for their own respective frigate programmes.. Sir Nick Hine, chief executive of our Marine Sector ...

Building warships is hard. To those who have been in one this will come as no surprise but for the majority who have not, and who see them like one’s phone or car, then this is not well understood. A ...

The Danish frigate, Iver Huitfeldt (F-361). Photo courtesy Wikipedia. As the U.S. Navy’s requirements and engineering communities look at upcoming ship classes and attempt to build in ...

Defence planners from the Indonesian Ministry of Defence (MoD) are increasingly leaning towards a variant of the Iver Huitfeldt class in their quest to acquire two more frigates for the country ...

Denmark has ordered Naval Strike Missiles which will be integrated onto its navy’s Iver Huitfeldt-class frigates and replace the Harpoon missiles currently in use on the ships.. The deal is worth NOK2 ...

The U.K. defense ministry has tapped a builder for the Royal Navy’s latest class of frigate. The ministry on Sept. 12, 2019 announced that U.K. engineering firm Babcock will receive a $1.5 ...

It's the third and last of the Iver Huitfeldt class of large frigates which, along with two similar Absalon-class combat support ships, will make up Denmark's primary naval force for the next ...

“Babcock says that the ability to fit the existing systems and equipment from the parent design, the Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate, is retained to provide flexibility in the capability supplied ...