>The German Defense is planning to order two additional Type F126 frigates from the Dutch shipbuilder Damen, according to the German website Hartpunkt.de, based on conversations with sources. Germany has had an order for four frigates from Damen since 2020, with Thales from Hengelo as a subcontractor. According to the Bundeswehr, this order is now intended to be expanded. The F126 frigates, with a displacement of 10,000 tons, will be the largest German naval vessels since World War II.
>In June 2020, the procurement organization of the Bundeswehr, BAAINBw, awarded the construction contract for the four F126 frigates to Damen Naval as the main contractor, along with subcontractors Blohm+Voss and Thales. Germany paid approximately 1.3 billion euros each for the four ships. It is the largest shipbuilding project in the history of the German navy, and the contract included an option for an additional two frigates.
>The Bundeswehr aims to exercise this option. However, time is of the essence, as the deadline for the two additional frigates is set for June 2024. According to Hartpunkt.de, the German Ministry of Defense is actively working to present a proposal to the parliament before the summer vacation.
>German journalist Matthias Gebauer of Der Spiegel shared "a shopping list" from Defense Minister Boris Pistorius on X yesterday, which also includes the F126.
>There has been uncertainty in recent years about the decision to order the additional frigates. In October 2022, it was reported that frigates numbers five and six were being abandoned due to a correction in the German budget caused by high inflation, with the frigates becoming victims of this adjustment.
>However, in March 2023, a document from the Bundeswehr leaked, revealing that the extra frigates were still included in future plans. The news that the order is likely to be placed does not come entirely out of the blue.
>Damen is also the main contractor for the additional frigates, but the construction of the ships takes place entirely in Germany. The first steel was cut on December 5, 2023, at the Peene Shipyard in Wolgast, on the Baltic Sea near the Polish border. The steel for the other frigates will also be cut at this location.
>The manufacturing of the ship and the welding of its various parts then take place at the German naval shipyard in Kiel. Subsequently, the ships are towed to Hamburg. Here, all systems, including the Tacticos weapon system by Thales, are installed, preparing the ship for delivery.
>According to the schedule, the first ship is expected to be delivered in 2028. The last in the series is anticipated in 2031 and will likely be manufactured using the same process.
goed nieuws ouwe, als we toch zulke gigantische knuffelkussens gaan bouwen, kunnen we dan ook niet een paar voor onszelf maken die daadwerkelijk bewapening hebben?
Like always. Geen monies. Would surprise me if we are able to build that Future Air Defender.
godzamme, wat zijn we dan ook een gierig volk, al dat gezeik over een paar centjes die toch weer terug de economie in gaan.
Your language is a shitty parody of German and I fricking love it.
Talk to me like a brain damaged Kraut, I'm here for it.
This video is highly relevant for your post, and this thread:
i havent heard this one yet, reminds me of my youth attaching a surfing board to the back of my dad's boat.
fun times.
Saw him live at my high school in Rotterdam. The changing rooms were mixed, the gym teacher was married to a 18 yo former student and religious classes were mandatory. How I miss the 90s.
die afdankers ten oost van ons zouden je niet half zo hard een trap onder je reet geven als ik dat kan. maak je borst maar nat.
oh and you guys are also a cheap parody of german, and you're also our baby brother where the constitution is concerned, you ripped that shid off. (also remember where yankees comes from)
Perfect.
we love you guys tho no homo.
i love how its just english sometimes
>and you're also our baby brother where the constitution is concerned
the constitution comes from the english bill of rights and the fundamental rights of the englishman, what the frick are you talking about.
no, no of course, as if it wasn't verbatim the Plakkaat van Verlatinghe or anything, sure 😉
I think you're thinking of the Declaration of Independence, not the US Constitution.
as a Swede dutch always seemed more like a parody of English to me
Before the 11th Century German, Dutch and English were nearly identical.
The Germanic part of the English language still contains many traces of Old Dutch.
Boek -> Book
Hoek -> Hook
Bloem -> Bloom
Knecht -> Knight
Etc. Etc.
>gigantische knuffelkussens
Süß :3
wat hangt er aan de waslijn meneer?
was sagen sie?
Waarom zou je de was zagen? klinkt niet heel nuttig.
gefopt!
Lees het artikel man
Dingen gaan bijna volledig in Duitsland gebouwd worden.
Wat moet Nederland trouwens nog met fregatten? Het is al een slavenstaat van Frankrijk/Duitsland. Zodra het Europese Leger is gevormd is het gedaan met de laatste illusie van onafhankelijkheid en is Nederland niet meer dan tweede rangs Bundesstaat.
meanwhile the dutch are buying swedish submarines for some reason
The reason is that the Dutch submarine building capability has ceased to exist since the 90s
The air force and army were probably branches where this investment should've gone if I'm gonna be honest.
The question ist, why do we need 2 additional underpowered "frigates"? Rather get 2 addtional F127.
If I was prime minister of the Netherlands I would put all their funding into the AIVD and implant agents in the South African Afrikaner community to subtly advocate for cape independence to establish a pro-dutch state to project dutch influence from the most strategic part of Africa
gebaseerd en roodgepild
wanneer vlaanderen annexeren
wanner jullie ophouden met een bende linkse piskes te zijn, de damen van Roter en Amster opblazen en torts zijn op moffen uit het volkslied halen.
>torts zijn op moffen uit het volkslied halen.
dat is helaas een misvertaling, van origine was het "van Diets bloed" niet duits.
Nuclear powered, 50 knot, 12 barrel long ranged rail-bombardment battleship KM Grosser Kurfurst when?
t. Burger waiting for someone anywhere to build a weapons system as cool as ours.
you'd have to build the fricking dry dock for that first, i doubt germany has one large enough.
we yurops really should invest big into drydocks and marine industry again. we could totally beat the chinks if we put some elbow grease into it.
sadly there's a certain group of people who'd rather chinks produce it for cheaper.
*pokes you with a stick* cmon..... build ze wunderwaffe....
well i'm not the german, but okay.
we want new amsterdam back though, flood it first before we get there, we'll polder it in and get rid of the dead vermin.
Since there are quite a few netherlanders in this thread, I've a question for you.
A dutch pal keeps telling me how horrific life is over there. So horrific that he's planning on moving to Eastern Europe of all places, since it's, according to him, based & trad and the women are way better.
He constantly says how all dutch women are feminists, prostitutes, they're domineering to the point where most young men settle down with asian women (not quality even asians either, just your dime a dozen thai/pinoy insects) and so on.
Then he constantly complains about muslims and how they're making life miserable for everyone, to the point where boatloads of dutch are fleeing the country.
Is that true or is the guy just exaggerating and blowing things out of proportions? He's a bit of a /misc/tard by the way.
all of these things are real issues on some level, but i'd wager he's blowing it a bit out of proportion.
he probably also lives in one of the bigger cities like amsterdam/rotterdam/den haag
those places are those "international" cities that always end up infested with fricking mudslimes.
women where i live aren't very feminist, not in any extreme sense, netherlands has a pretty prominent bible belt throughout the country as well.
i can garuantee you in terms of women quality, i'd say the poles on average have better looking girls, but far more of them are genuine prostitutes and prostitutes than over here, so your dutch friend is a pretty big moron if he's going to poland to find a trad wife.
>or is the guy just exaggerating and blowing things out of proportions? He's a bit of a /misc/tard by the way.
you answered your own question
well, in real life people from eastern Europe are going west and not the other way around
does that answer your question?
>A dutch pal keeps telling me how horrific life is over there.
Housing is crazy bad out here
that's true btw
i'm surprised that's not something your /misc/tard fren mentioned because that is legit a huge problem here right now.
everyone is struggling with the housing crisis.
>i'm surprised that's not something your /misc/tard fren mentioned
His state gibs are probably paying for his accommodation.
>A dutch pal keeps telling me how horrific life is over there.
>He constantly says how all dutch women are feminists, prostitutes, they're domineering
>He's a bit of a /misc/tard by the way.
not surprised. /misc/tards are notoriously beta cucks.
sounds like a poltard that can't get any
>He's a bit of a /misc/tard by the way.
You should call him vatnik as of now, he and his kind voted to have the country become a satelite state of St Pidorsburg.
Man I sure am glad that the only thing all of my Dutch vidya bros complain about is housing prices. That makes them very relatable which offsets all the KANKER BUS shouting they do out of nowhere.
why are germans so pathetic?
their military budget is bigger than russian, yet they have jack shit to show for it
>no submarines
>no destroyers
>no cruisers
>no massive airforce
>no nuclear capabilities
where does all the money go? dont see many germans with 150m megayachts
stacks of regulatory paper.
Some Bureaucratic hell, Israel and/or Secretly funding the 3rd Reich remnants in Antarctica
kankermoffen getting uppity again?
10,000 tonne displacement
16 VLS
its a dutch thing, you wouldn't get it.
you should see how we text
>We win again!
>...I mean, if you ignore the fact IRA and a bunch of jeets had us elect a prime minister that will delay and/or sabotage TZD every single opportunity he gets.
Aren't most parties just outright refusing to work with that absolute twat?
I wish, fact of the matter is they are all so desperate to make amends so they can start their term that they are willing to give up way too much. And if collaboration is impossible it'll be more than likely that more of the gullible dutch will vote for the russian agent.
American women are the scum of the earth. Well, all women are the scum of the earth, but American women do it better than others.
Also America is not spelled with a K, so that seems like a German spy.
I thought the Germans built their own frigates. When the US Navy had the FFG(x), I heard a lot of Germans b***hing that the USN would not let the Germans bid. Germans do not have a ship yard in the USA, so of course they were never going to be allowed.
It's less about nation states and more about corporations.
Damen is cooperating with German yards like German Naval Yards, Blohm + Voss or Thales.
There are competing German companies like ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems.