Norway selects British-made frigates to beef up maritime defence in $13.5 bln deal

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Source: reuters


By Nora Buli and Terje Solsvik August 31, 2025 6:57 AM CDT Updated 4 hours ago



OSLO, Aug 31 (Reuters) - Norway said on Sunday it had chosen Britain as its strategic partner for the acquisition of new frigates in its biggest ever military investment, in a deal worth some 10 billion pounds ($13.51 billion) to boost the Nordic country's maritime defence.

Germany, France, Britain and the United States had offered rival frigate designs in competition.

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Norway is NATO's monitor for the vast 2 million square kilometres (772,000 square miles) area of the North Atlantic used by the Russian northern fleet's nuclear submarines.


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[Ocelot II]

1. Nobody's going to be buying a damn thing from the US for awhile.

[Dawson Leery]

2. America would deny service to anyonw who does not go along with the governments antics.

[C_U_L8R]

3. Trump blows it, again

The guy sure knows how to fail fast.

[Abnredleg]

4. The US design is actually a reworked Italian design

That is having major technical difficulties and is far behind schedule. There was no way the Norwegian Navy was going to go with such a risky design even if it trusted the Trump Administration, which of course it doesn’t.

[Ocelot II]

5. It also made sense for them to buy the British ships,

since they already work with the British Navy to patrol the arctic regions on behalf of NATO. Might as well completely integrate the mission using the same ships.

[LearnedHand]

6. Clean URL without trackers

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/norway-selects-british-made-frigates-beef-up-maritime-defence-135-bln-deal-2025-08-31

[Ocelot II]

7. Apparently there was some concern that the US-made ships had "kill switches."

From David Frum on X:



and:



And maybe in F-35s. https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/03/13/can-the-us-turn-off-european-weapons-experts-weigh-in-on-kill-switch-fears