{"id":496200,"date":"2025-10-13T13:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/496200\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T13:15:14","slug":"germany-goes-for-more-us-equipment-for-f127-frigates-with-spy-6-radar-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/496200\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany goes for more US equipment for F127 frigates with SPY-6 radar choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid reports that Germany could expand its future fleet of F127 frigates from the original five planned warships to eight, the Bundeswehr has now selected the US\u2019s Raytheon to supply its <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.shephardmedia.com\/detail\/spy-6v1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SPY-6(V)1<\/a> radars for the vessels under a requested foreign military sale (FMS).<\/p>\n<p>Recent news\u00a0of the possible expansion of <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.shephardmedia.com\/programmes\/detail\/f124-frigate-replacement-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Germany\u2019s F124 replacement programme<\/a>\u00a0(F127) came from figures published by Politico\u00a0in September analysing the country\u2019s Budget Committee proposal that allocated \u20ac26 billion (US$30.18 billion) to the programme. <\/p>\n<p>The next-generation F127 anti-air warfare frigates are set to replace the German Navy\u2019s\u00a0current F124 ships between 2030 and 2035. The programme was formally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amid reports that Germany could expand its future fleet of F127 frigates from the original five planned warships&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[2000,299,163241,163240,87416,1824,80193,163242],"class_list":{"0":"post-496200","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-f124","11":"tag-f127","12":"tag-german-navy","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-raytheon","15":"tag-spy-6v1"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115367046363863613","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}