The Navy CANCELLED Its Frigate. Now Britain Wants In

Описание: Can a British frigate fill the hole left by a cancelled American one?

On Oct 25, 2026, Babcock told The Telegraph it wants to compete for the US Navy's new surface-combatant requirement with Arrowhead 140, the design behind the Royal Navy's Type 31. The Navy cancelled Constellation ships 3-6 on Nov 25, 2025, and the lead ship was only about 12% complete. A Navy options assessment is due around Nov 12, 2026, 90 days after the Aug 13 presidential memo.

We look at the ship (138.7 m, about 5,700 t, no hull or towed hunting sonar in the baseline version), the delays at Rosyth, what China is building, and the political walls a foreign design still has to get through. No formal bid and no contract exist yet.

0:00 A British frigate for America
2:23 The frigate that was never built
6:14 Plan B and the 90-day memo
9:12 Meet the Arrowhead 140
12:53 How a frigate hunts
16:28 What China builds
19:14 The walls in the way
21:56 Back to Rosyth

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