{"id":29768,"date":"2026-07-21T22:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/29768\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T22:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T22:03:09","slug":"belgian-frigate-replacement-programme-plagued-by-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/29768\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian frigate replacement programme plagued by delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Francken said that while discussions with the Dutch Government are ongoing, Belgium will launch a request for information addressed to naval shipbuilders in other European countries that could potentially satisfy the requirements of the ASWF programme.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Mr Francken told members of Belgium&#8217;s lower house that the programme is beset with technical and design-related problems.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The margins of the original hull design ultimately proved insufficient, which led to a design crisis,&#8221; the minister said in a meeting with the lower house&#8217;s national defence committee on July 1. &#8220;In&#8230;2026, a new, larger design was proposed, which, however, entails additional costs and further delays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mr Francken said that while discussions with the Dutch Government are ongoing, Belgium will launch a request for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[3515,7,16428,69,16429,1023,3517],"class_list":["post-29768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgian-navy","tag-belgium","tag-damen-shipyards-group","tag-europe","tag-karel-doorman-class","tag-netherlands","tag-royal-netherlands-navy"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116960231925808170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}