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Frigate ship8/13/2023 ![]() ![]() While the Navy wants each new frigate to cost around $1 billion, the U.S. You can build beautifully and it costs you sometimes less money, sometimes less money.”Īlso untrue. “And look at what you’re doing, how beautiful it is,” Trump said of the FFG(X) design “They gave me a beautiful model that’s absolutely … it’s like a yacht with missiles on it, okay? It’s beautiful. To change the FFG(X)’s design, Trump would have needed to travel to the early 2000s and infiltrate naval design bureaus in Italy and France. In fact, Fincantieri’s FFG(X) design is based on the blueprints of the Italian company’s Fregata Europea Multimissione, or FREMM, a popular warship in European navies. I said, ‘This is not a good-looking ship. It’ll cost you the same and maybe less.’ Sometimes you can make it look great for less money. “I changed designs,” Trump said, truly riffing at that point. “The other is your location in Wisconsin, if you want to know the truth,” Trump said, implying that political considerations-Wisconsin is a presidential swing state-illegally weighed on the Navy’s choice of shipyard. The Italian FREMM frigate 'Alpino' underway with the 'Burke'-class USS 'Gonzalez' in 2018. “I heard that maneuverability is one of the big factors that you were chosen for the contract,” Trump said. The 7,500-ton-displacement FFG(X) in fact is slower than a 3,000-ton LCS is and less sophisticated than a 9,500-ton Flight III Burke is-albeit cheaper. “We’ll put the shipyard to work constructing some of the fastest, most advanced and most maneuverable combat ships anywhere in the ocean.” Untrue. And Congress will need to add billions more to complete the ships. “The massive deal is worth up to $5.5 billion,” Trump said. You’re going to be building your hearts away, so good luck on the program.” “And it’s going to go on for a long time because it’s up to 20 ships and it might be extended, and they’re working on an extension right now and we’ll see, but just go. “It sounds good to me, but it’s going to be built right here in the American heartland and it’s going to be built by you,” Trump continued. What does that stand for, please? Would you please tell me? Does anybody know? FFG(X)? I think nobody knows, but that’s okay.” Unlike the lightweight Littoral Combat Ships, the new frigates would be heavily armed and tough enough to absorb hits. ![]() The idea was to build at least 20 smaller, cheaper warships to complement the Navy’s existing Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and Ticonderoga-class cruisers and accelerate the fleet’s expansion. president Donald Trump tours Fincantieri's Wisconsin shipyard on June 25, 2020.
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