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Abnredleg

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4. The US design is actually a reworked Italian design

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

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.

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