Featured Contacts between Navantia and Saudi Arabia to manufacture LPDs and frigates

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• The contract for the five corvettes is going well and an agreement for other naval programs is now being negotiated.
• The Spanish construction company has already presented an offer that also includes the ‘Juan Carlos I’ model

Navantia maintains contacts with the Saudi government to expand trade relations that began two years ago with the signing of 5 Corvettes for the Saudi navy for 1.8 billion euros.

The talks started as published by the Spanish website Infodefensa and now confirmed by La vos a few months before the Corona pandemic.

The contacts between the two parties revolve around two clearly defined maritime programs:

The first: two amphibious assault ships Juan Carlos class, as previously published

The second: a frigates program based on the design of the F-100 frigates that were previously exported to Norway and Australia, with some improvements from the F-110 program.

Navantia is working on new potential contract options in light of the well-known plans for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to increase its maritime capabilities in the coming years, and the company or source does not know if the economic impact of the pandemic will affect maritime plans for Saudi Arabia.

In any case, the company is currently working in a better position than its position during the difficult negotiations that lasted for two years on the Corvette program, but it failed to lay the foundations for a relationship more than just corvettes represented in a joint project called SANNI to manage the Corvette program and future programs such as those on The negotiating table now.


https://www.infodefensa.com/es/2020...os-fragatas-buques-anfibios-arabia-saudi.html

 

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The F110 class are a new class of future Aegis combat system frigates of the Spanish Navy. The project is being developed by the Ministry of Defence and the public company Navantia. The construction of the frigates will begin in 2019 and are scheduled to be delivered between 2025 and 2031.

Juan Carlos I is a multi-purpose amphibious assault ship-aircraft carrier in the Spanish Navy (Armada Española). Similar in role to many aircraft carriers, the ship has a ski jump for STOVL operations, and is equipped with the AV-8B Harrier II attack aircraft.
The vessel has a flight deck of 202 metres (663 ft), with a ski-jump ramp. The ship's flight deck has eight landing spots for Harrier, F-35 Lightning II or medium-sized helicopters, four spots for heavy helicopters of the CH-47 Chinook or V-22 Osprey size. The ship can carry either 30 helicopters or 10/12 McDonnell Douglas AV-8B Harrier II or Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II and 10/12 helicopters,[5] using the light vehicles bay as an additional storage zone.