UK MoD restates ‘average’ benchmark for Type 31e
Amid reports that the budget for the UK’s Type 31e light frigate programme has shifted following an apparent realisation that the £250 million ($325 million) per-ship cost may be too low, the MoD has restated its intention to procure five vessels as originally planned.
With the budget considered for some time to be too low to provide sufficient capability for the Royal Navy’s requirements, reports in The Financial Times and The Telegraph on 7 May suggested that this had brought about a rethink from the MoD. Both suggested that government furnished equipment– the systems taken from the outgoing Type 23
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