HMS Glasgow (Type 26 frigate)
HMS Glasgow is the first Type 26 frigate to be built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy.[10] The Type 26 class will partially replace the navy's thirteen Type 23 frigates,[11] and will be a multi-mission warship designed to support anti-submarine warfare, air defence and general purpose operations.[2]
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Name: | HMS Glasgow |
Namesake: | The city of Glasgow |
Ordered: | 2 July 2017 |
Builder: | BAE Systems |
Laid down: | 20 July 2017 |
Launched: | Expected late 2021 |
Status: | Under construction |
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Type: | Type 26 frigate[1] |
Displacement: | 6,900 t (6,800 long tons; 7,600 short tons),[2] 8,000+ t full load[3][4] |
Length: | 149.9 m (492 ft)[2] |
Beam: | 20.8 m (68 ft 3 in)[2] |
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Speed: | In excess of 26 kn (48 km/h; 30 mph)[2] |
Range: | In excess of 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) in Electric-Motor (EM) drive[2] |
Complement: | 118[2] (capacity for 208)[2] |
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Electronic warfare & decoys: | IRVIN-GQ DLF decoys[5] |
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Notes: | Flexible mission bay[7] |
Construction
The ship is being assembled on the River Clyde in Glasgow.[12] The first steel was cut for Glasgow in July 2017 with the ship expected to be delivered in 2023.[13][14] In January 2018, work started on the second hull section.[15]
In January 2020, the Royal Navy announced that the ship was more than halfway through construction.[16]
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(help) - BAE Systems. "Products - Global Combat Ship". Global Combat Ship. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
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- "Defence: Type 26 Frigates", House of Lords Hansard, UK Parliament, column 6-7, 26 January 2015
- "Q&A with BAE Systems on Type 26 Frigate Design Update at Euronaval 2012". Belgium: navyrecognition.com. 10 January 2013.
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- "UK confirms Mk 41 VLS selection for Type 26" Archived 7 December 2014 at the Wayback Machine, janes.com, 4 December 2014
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- Type 26 Global Combat Ship, royalnavy.mod.uk. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
- "BAE Systems engaging the Type 26 supply chain. The supply chains for a modern warship are complex and call for careful management, as defence writer Mark Lane discovers talking to BAE Systems' Gary McCloskey". www.contracts.mod.uk. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- "First Type 26 frigate named HMS Glasgow". BBC. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
- "First parts ordered for UK's new Type 26 frigates". Janes. 6 August 2015. Retrieved 25 April 2016.
- "BAE start work on second hull section for Type 26 Frigate HMS Glasgow".
- https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news-and-latest-activity/news/2020/january/27/200127-hms-glasgow
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