Surprise at the Naval at the loss by Navantia of a large order made in USA
Surprise at the Naval at the loss by Navantia of a large order made in USA
Indignation in the Spanish naval, in the fear that in the tragic decision would have influenced the well-known Spanish disaire to the United States of Goberno Sánchez
Surprise at the Spanish naval for the loss of a millionaire order from Navantia that would have exceeded the €6 billion!, product of the construction of 12 state-of-the-art frigates for the United States Navy... the news has now fallen as a bomb with tremendous destruction power. The winner of the offer was the Italian group Fincantieri, who 11 years ago had acquired a shipyard in the state of Winső, on the coast of Lake Michigan... which is apparently where he will execute the U.S. government's request.
The news is surprising from any point of view, as Navantia was - along with the American group Rytheon - the technologist of the joint offer with General Dynamics... this because the Aegis combat system, which was the one who chose the US Navy to equip its future frigates, has been successfully developed and installed by Navantia on Spanish, Australian and Norwegian ships. It is also used on other ships of the Navy, in South Korea and Japan. Fincantieri does not have this system and its ships operate in the Italian, French, Egyptian and Moroccan armed forces. However, in different Spanish economic circles, it is felt that the "made in USA" request had a very high political factor... and it is very possible that recent disarming of Americans in NATO maneuvers was the trigger of this disaster for Navantia.
Published by El Confidencial once has transcended the news
Although Navantia is the shipyard that, worldwide, has the most proven experience of success in the construction of ships with this combat system, its offer was not chosen. Just a year ago, a Spanish frigate F100 - equipped with this Aegis- was removed by order of the Spanish Government from the group of combat ships that was escorting a group of American aircraft carriers in a maneuver by several countries between Spain and California passing through the Persian Gulf. This tour was intended, from the perspective of Navantia, for the American Navy to check the capabilities of the Spanish frigates and their technological performance. The frigate Méndez Núñez F-104 arrived in the United States to start the first phase of that period in January 2019, returned to Spain and joined the second phase in March. But in May, Donald Trump's government decided to involve this group of aircraft carriers and military ships in manoeuvres not initially planned in the face of alleged attacks from Iran on oil vessels from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Spain justified the temporary withdrawal of Méndez Núñez from the group in the common position of the European Union not to take any aggressive action in the midst of the enormous geopolitical tension that was experienced at that time. The Spanish frigate was the only non-American ship in the comitiva. At that time it was already warned that such a measure could seriously affect Navantia's options for the contract now awarded.
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