The British build good frigates. Since the US Navy is abandoning the poorly thought out “Littoral Combat Ships” which they’d hoped would replace the US frigates. Maybe the US could license this design and build 40 or so of them?
I heard the other day that one of the Navy’s Littoral Combat ships cracked a hull in the Panama canal...hitting some rocks or something.
Funny, Littoral means sea/land battle space - able to get close in, down and dirty....yet the hull on this one gets “cracked” (as the article explains it).
The Brits need sea-keeping capabilities in their vessels to deal with the North Sea. That would make the hull requirements a little bit more elaborate than USN needs I would think. If we’re going to build 40 - 80 hulls (I agree with that), then we need something pretty affordable.
One of the ideas floating around is a stripped-down “Burke”. That gets you building a proven hull in the shortest period of time.