"Denmark’s latest frigate" Topic

I know this is old news… but this ship is so cute!…

"Danes have a well-deserved reputation for designing and building efficient, effective ships on tight budgets. In line with the government's desire to provide meaningful contributions to coalition and expeditionary forces, their newest ships have been designed to deploy well beyond Europe.

In recent years the Danish Navy has commissioned five impressive, modern warships fitted with sophisticated command and control and sensor suites and — when they're eventually fully fitted out — powerful armaments. First came the combat support ships Absalon and Esbern Snare. Since their commissioning in 2004 and 2005, respectively, the two have deployed a number of times, in particular serving as flagships for anti-piracy forces patrolling off Somalia….."

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Amicalement
Armand

Sensible – not only reusing equipment to keep costs down, but has the capacity built in to upgrade later.

'Two Italian-made 76mm Oto Melara guns are fitted forward — unusually for post-World War II ships, in a super-firing arrangement (one over the other). The guns are reconditioned units from decommissioned patrol ships. The base ring for the forward mount is sized to take a US-built Mark 45 five-inch gun, but funding for the mount — at about $50 USD million each — has yet to be approved. Eventually, the Danish Navy hopes to install another close-in weapon system in the No. 2 position.'

Maybe we should have bought those, or some of those superb Swedish frigates, instead of the LCS boondoggle.

Also, looks very much like what I expect Ogreverse ships to be – wonder when we'll see minis of this?

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Amicalement
Armand

The really brilliant part of the design is the STANFLEX mission modules, which we should have licensed to use in the LCS.