Abu Dhabi Ship Building unveils new design for longest corvette
The ship is the latest in the UAE’s push to develop home-grown naval systems to reduce reliance on foreign platforms, analyst Kristian Alexander told Breaking Defense.
The ship is the latest in the UAE’s push to develop home-grown naval systems to reduce reliance on foreign platforms, analyst Kristian Alexander told Breaking Defense.
Formal country-to-country negotiations are expected to begin in the coming weeks, a Lockheed rep said.
The PNS Babur is the first of four corvettes being built for the Pakistani Navy by Turkish shipbuilders.
The new fighters are part of a much larger modernization effort in Helsinki that includes replacing seven retiring guided missile ships with four bleeding edge multirole corvettes.