As we wrote two days ago, the decision regarding the first installment of the US Navy FFG / X Next Generation Missile Frigate Program is due to be publicly presented in the next few days, possibly even today. 'hui. But the economic site Forbes seems to have had the first information, since he announces that the Italian Fincantieri with the Marinette shipyards and the Austral shipyards would be the most likely to be designated winners of the competition to build the first 10 frigates of the program.
The decision grid used by the US Navy was particularly wide, ranging from the performance of the ship to the impact on employment, so that it was difficult to determine one or more favorites in this competition. General Dynamics' Bath Iron Works shipyards' bid based on a model derived from Spain's F100 Alvaro de Balzan class Navantia seems to have lost a lot of credibility during the accident that led to the loss of the frigate F313 Helge ingstad of the Royal Norwegian Navy, itself based on the same model, after a collision with another building. Conversely, Huntington Ingalls' offer, robust according to operational criteria because it is derived from the Arleigh Burke destroyers which form the backbone of the US Navy's surface fleet, would have suffered from the large number of orders awarded to this company. , ranging from Burke destroyers to Ford-class aircraft carriers.
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