Fincantieri CEO Pierroberto Folgiero also touched on several other topics during a closed-door roundtable, including lessons learned from the war in Ukraine regarding naval drones and the future of a common European patrol corvette.
David Massey sat down with Breaking Defense in DIMDEX in Qatar and explained how medium-sized USVs are already old hat.
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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.
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