[sukhoi-30mki]

Spanish F-100

[pepsi_junkie]

Maine’s Bath Iron Works (owned by General Dynamics) will probably revive a previous partnership with Spanish shipbuilder Navantia, whose 5,900-ton F-100 family has the same Aegis radar and air defense system as American destroyers. That makes it the most sophisticated but also probably the most expensive contender, unless they deliberately downsize the radar to cut cost.

They could employ a SPY-1F radar instead of SPY-1D. It's a much smaller version of the SPY-1D used on Arleigh Burke class destroyers and the F100. Navantia already integrated the SPY-1F on the frigates they built for the Norwegian Navy. I'm surprised those Norwegian Frigates wouldn't be in consideration, actually.

[DoughtyOne]

My only concern is that we keep the “know-how” U.S. based, so that we keep up with the latest tech and designs of this class of warship.

We need to pick up where things left off, if some of these relationships ever go South.

While this sounds like outsourcing, I wonder how much of it may in fact be our President tweaking our builders/suppliers in order to break loose some better deals design and cost-wise.

[DoodleDawg]

bfl

[rmlew]

I guess the British Type 26 Frigate is out of the running, because it hasn't been fielded. The Fremm woould be nice with more VLS tubes.
I don't like the idea of using he Spanish frigates or any ship with Spy-1 family radars. We are too dependent on these and there are newer designs like the AMDR or higher mounted radars, which may provide better detection for sea skimming missiles.