Carrier experience could clinch it for Babcock Type 31e bid
Babcock has unveiled its new Arrowhead 140 frigate design, with the company hoping that experience with the Queen Elizabeth class aircraft carriers will tip its offering ahead for the Royal Navy's Type 31e competition.
With a proven in-water design, based on the Danish Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate from OMT, it could come down to the existing infrastructure and build plan that clinches it for the company and Team 31.
The competition, Cammell Laird and BAE Systems, have also proposed an established design for its Type 31e offering, a warship design known as Leander, based on the Khareef-class corvette built for the
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