{"id":71233,"date":"2026-04-29T14:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/71233\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T14:51:09","slug":"stockholm-prepares-to-choose-between-three-european-frigate-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/71233\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockholm prepares to choose between three European frigate proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a decision from Stockholm anticipated in 2026, three European contenders \u2013 Saab in partnership with the UK\u2019s Babcock, Spain\u2019s Navantia and France\u2019s Naval Group \u2013 are each proposing frigate designs that reflect markedly different platform sizes, combat system architecture and industrial cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Sweden is preparing to select a design for four new multi\u2011role frigates under its <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.shephardmedia.com\/programmes\/detail\/gavle-class-corvette-replacement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lule\u00e5 programme<\/a>, providing a higher-end complement to the Visby-class corvettes. First deliveries are targeted around 2030 with a contract decision expected this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish Ministry of Defence (MoD) framed the programme in operational terms. A spokesperson told Shephard that the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a decision from Stockholm anticipated in 2026, three European contenders \u2013 Saab in partnership with the UK\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[38749,38747,38744,8285,38750,23457,38742,38745,17012,38743,131,132,38748,38746],"class_list":{"0":"post-71233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-stockholm","8":"tag-afla-4000","9":"tag-arrowhead-120","10":"tag-babcock","11":"tag-baltic","12":"tag-fdi-frigates","13":"tag-frigate","14":"tag-lulea","15":"tag-naval-group-sweden","16":"tag-navantia","17":"tag-saab","18":"tag-stockholm","19":"tag-sweden","20":"tag-swedish-navy","21":"tag-visby-class"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116488561222992363","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}