At a time when Russia threatens to invade Ukraine and China is rapidly building up its naval forces at an unprecedented level, the Belgian government has decided to cut back on an important multi-decade naval capacity and will continue to free-ride on the back of its allies. This Belgian federal government has no right to speak about being a reliable partner, solidarity with allies, European strategic autonomy and sovereignty ever again.
I thought our fleet was commanded by the Dutch and we had like 3 ships in total? I’m sure they won’t be missed.
Two VLS systems shared by two ships. An average of one VLS per ship. I did a quick Google search and the first frigate I found has 36 VLS. I’m not saying the 36 is representabel, but 1 (ok 2 on one ship instead of 2×1) definitely isn’t either. We don’t need 120 Arleigh-Burke class destroyers, no carriers, no cruisers. But I think 3-5 well equipped ships is a minimum for a country that wants to import as much as we do, and which has a major port. Yes we have allies, but we’re the fat kid that didn’t do jack shit during the football match yets goes bragging of how good his team is afterwards at this point. Cartman, we’re the Eric Cartman of NATO.
Of course they wouldn cant have ships that can actually fight now can we?
The new more expensive ships will be less armed then the older ones and be the least armed frigates in the world, makes sense.
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At a time when Russia threatens to invade Ukraine and China is rapidly building up its naval forces at an unprecedented level, the Belgian government has decided to cut back on an important multi-decade naval capacity and will continue to free-ride on the back of its allies. This Belgian federal government has no right to speak about being a reliable partner, solidarity with allies, European strategic autonomy and sovereignty ever again.
I thought our fleet was commanded by the Dutch and we had like 3 ships in total? I’m sure they won’t be missed.
Two VLS systems shared by two ships. An average of one VLS per ship. I did a quick Google search and the first frigate I found has 36 VLS. I’m not saying the 36 is representabel, but 1 (ok 2 on one ship instead of 2×1) definitely isn’t either. We don’t need 120 Arleigh-Burke class destroyers, no carriers, no cruisers. But I think 3-5 well equipped ships is a minimum for a country that wants to import as much as we do, and which has a major port. Yes we have allies, but we’re the fat kid that didn’t do jack shit during the football match yets goes bragging of how good his team is afterwards at this point. Cartman, we’re the Eric Cartman of NATO.
Of course they wouldn cant have ships that can actually fight now can we?
The new more expensive ships will be less armed then the older ones and be the least armed frigates in the world, makes sense.
I misread ‘frituren’ instead of frigates, panic!