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(77,992 posts) Sun Aug 31, 2025, 01:03 PM Aug 31

Norway selects British-made frigates to beef up maritime defence in $13.5 bln deal

Source: reuters

By Nora Buli and Terje Solsvik August 31, 2025 6:57 AM CDT Updated 4 hours ago

OSLO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Norway said on Sunday it had chosen Britain as its strategic partner for the acquisition of new frigates in its biggest ever military investment, in a deal worth some 10 billion pounds ($13.51 billion) to boost the Nordic country's maritime defence.

Germany, France, Britain and the United States had offered rival frigate designs in competition.

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Norway is NATO's monitor for the vast 2 million square kilometres (772,000 square miles) area of the North Atlantic used by the Russian northern fleet's nuclear submarines.

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Norway selects British-made frigates to beef up maritime defence in $13.5 bln deal (Original Post) riversedge Aug 31 OP

Nobody's going to be buying a damn thing from the US for awhile. Ocelot II Aug 31 #1

America would deny service to anyonw who does not go along with the governments antics. Dawson Leery Aug 31 #2

Trump blows it, again C_U_L8R Aug 31 #3

The US design is actually a reworked Italian design Abnredleg Aug 31 #4

It also made sense for them to buy the British ships, Ocelot II Aug 31 #5

Clean URL without trackers LearnedHand Aug 31 #6

Apparently there was some concern that the US-made ships had "kill switches." Ocelot II Aug 31 #7

Ocelot II

(127,457 posts)

1. Nobody's going to be buying a damn thing from the US for awhile.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Aug 31, 2025, 01:10 PM

Aug 31

Dawson Leery

(19,486 posts)

2. America would deny service to anyonw who does not go along with the governments antics.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Aug 31, 2025, 01:22 PM

Aug 31

C_U_L8R

(48,168 posts)

3. Trump blows it, again

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Sun Aug 31, 2025, 01:28 PM

Aug 31

The guy sure knows how to fail fast.

Abnredleg

(1,160 posts)

4. The US design is actually a reworked Italian design

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Sun Aug 31, 2025, 01:36 PM

Aug 31

That is having major technical difficulties and is far behind schedule. There was no way the Norwegian Navy was going to go with such a risky design even if it trusted the Trump Administration, which of course it doesn’t.

Ocelot II

(127,457 posts)

5. It also made sense for them to buy the British ships,

Reply to Abnredleg (Reply #4)

Sun Aug 31, 2025, 01:48 PM

Aug 31

since they already work with the British Navy to patrol the arctic regions on behalf of NATO. Might as well completely integrate the mission using the same ships.