{"id":4351,"date":"2018-10-22T22:48:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4351"},"modified":"2018-10-22T22:48:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T22:48:48","slug":"type-26-frigate-wins-canadian-frigate-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/22\/type-26-frigate-wins-canadian-frigate-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"TYPE 26 FRIGATE WINS CANADIAN FRIGATE COMPETITION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/canadat26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4352\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/canadat26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1021\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/canadat26.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/canadat26-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/canadat26-768x436.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/canadat26-560x318.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/canadat26-260x148.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/canadat26-160x91.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\" \/><\/a>Source: UK Defence Journal<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-author-by\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/author\/george-allison\/\">George Allison<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Canada has selected the Type 26 Frigate as the preferred option for the Royal Canadian Navy\u2019s future Canadian Surface Combatants.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Surface Combatant is the name given to the procurement project that will replace the Iroquois and Halifax class warships with up to 15 new ships beginning in the early 2020s as part of the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. The replacement vessels will be somewhat larger than the existing Halifax class, and presumably provide a wide-area air defence capability, anti-submarine warfare capability, as well as anti-shipping capability.<\/p>\n<p>The options were:<\/p>\n<p>Type 26 frigate proposed by Lockheed Martin Canada and BAE Systems<\/p>\n<p>Dutch De Zeven Provinci\u00ebn class frigate based design proposed by Alion Canada and Damen Group<\/p>\n<p>Spanish F-105 frigate design offered by Navantia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/ukdefencejournal.org.uk\/type-26-frigate-wins-canadian-frigate-competition\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: UK Defence Journal By George Allison Canada has selected the Type 26 Frigate as the preferred option for the Royal Canadian Navy\u2019s future Canadian Surface Combatants. The Canadian Surface Combatant is the name given to the procurement project that will replace the Iroquois and Halifax class warships with up to 15 new ships beginning&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/22\/type-26-frigate-wins-canadian-frigate-competition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TYPE 26 FRIGATE WINS CANADIAN FRIGATE COMPETITION<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4353,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4351\/revisions\/4353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}