Sentence examples for new frigates for from inspiring English sources

So forget futuristic new frigates for now.

"But, more important, silhouetted against the flame were two escort vessels, both instantly obvious as fine new frigates of the Mikura class.

Younger officers remain devoted to General Pinochet, but most focus on relations with the politicians who hold the purse strings for the new frigates, fighter jets and tanks they say they desperately need.

Even the placing of orders for 13 new frigates was never going to replace the lost work.

The money spent on carriers and their jets is even more difficult to justify, say critics, at a time when the navy is getting six new frigates at £1bn apiece and a replacement for the Trident nuclear ballistic missile system, which ministers say could cost £20bn while admitting they do not know what the final figure will be.

Now we are told only that the new frigates "will start to replace" the existing fleet.

Without new frigates, the gap will have to be plugged with second-hand acquisitions.

The navy will lose three aged destroyers, three worryingly new frigates and 1,500 sailors.

Vietnam is also buying seven or so new frigates and corvettes over the next decade.

It will not please the Royal Navy or the unions that they are getting only eight new frigates, but it makes sense to invest instead in aircraft equipped with sensors that can detect submarines, instead of having to ask the French to patrol our coastline for us.

South Korea is the likely source of the Philippine Navy's plan to purchase two new frigates in a program valued at around US$410 million, with three of the four bids for the proposed acquisition coming from South Korean firms (Moss 2014).