BAE Systems to collaborate with Umoe Mandal on Type 26 frigate and Littoral Strike Craft
HMS Glasgow, one of the Royal Navy's Type 26 frigates. (Photo: BAE Systems)
The agreement is intended to boost opportunities for both UK and Norwegian naval shipbuilding.
BAE Systems has signed a collaboration agreement with Norwegian shipyard Umoe Mandal to find new ways to work together on the Type 26 frigate, and on BAE Systems’ Littoral Strike Craft (LSC) as it moves from concept to commercial reality.
The agreement, which was signed at Mandal in southern Norway, would see the two companies explore ways to expand on existing collaborations on the two classes of modular vessels.
Umoe Mandal already supplies significant components for the Type 26 frigate which is being built as a replacement for the Type 23 warship in the UK's Royal Navy.
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