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Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigate (Koninklijke Marine)
Ship design project of the Royal Netherlands Navy and Belgian Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigate (ASWF) is a project of the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN, Dutch: Koninklijke Marine) and Belgian Navy to replace the existing Multipurpose- or M-frigates.[12] The project shows similarities to the British Global Combat Ship (also formerly named FSC program) but development is fully separate.
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Name | Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigate |
Builders | Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding |
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Preceded by | Karel Doorman-class frigate |
Cost | €4 billion for 4 ships (as of April 2023)[1] |
Built | 2020–2030s |
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Displacement | 6.400 tonnes |
Length | 145 m (475 ft 9 in) |
Beam | 18 m (59 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 5.5 m (18 ft 1 in) |
Installed power | 32 MW (43,000 hp) |
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Complement | 117 (plus space for additional 34) |
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