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29-494: Future Surface Combatant is the designation of shipbuilding programs for: Future Surface Combatant (Koninklijke Marine) , the Netherlands and Belgium Future Surface Combatant (Royal Navy) , United Kingdom Future Surface Combatant (U.S. Navy) or DDG(X) , United States Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with

58-488: A 76mm Sovraponte as primary naval gun. This naval gun is capable of firing DART munition. Besides the Sovraponte gun, each frigate will also be equipped with two Bofors 40 Mk4 as secondary naval guns. When it comes to missiles, the frigates will be armed with a RIM-116 RAM . Furthermore, the ships will be equipped with two 4 canister NSM launchers and two 8-cell Mk 41 strike-length VLS that are capable of launching

87-408: A squadron of MMS minesweepers and three patrol boats ( Phrontis  [ fr ] , Electra and Kernot ). In 1946, Britain donated the ships to Belgium. These vessels became the backbone of the new Belgian Navy. The Belgian Navy was expanded in the late 1940s and the 1950s with the transfer of former U.S., British, and Commonwealth warships. After Belgium became a member of NATO, the role of

116-617: A total of 64 ESSM Block 2 missiles in a quad-pack configuration. In addition, the ASWF is armed with a torpedo system that is capable of launching the Mk 54 torpedo . There is also room for future growth, such as potentially arming the frigates with anti-torpedo torpedoes and laser weapons . The hulls will be partially manufactured in Romania, at Damen 's shipyard in Galati . It will be fitted with its system at

145-761: Is also generally referred to as the Belgian Navy . On 20 July 2005, the Belgian government decided to buy two of the remaining six Dutch M-class frigates to replace the two remaining frigates of the Wielingen class ( Wielingen and Westdiep ) at the time still in service with the Belgian Navy, which in turn were sold to Bulgaria. On 21 December 2005, the Dutch government sold Karel Doorman (F827) and Willem Van Der Zaan (F829) to Belgium. The two ships were sold for about 250 million Euros. These two M-class frigates entered service with

174-556: The Narcis , which will undergo full maintenance before being donated. Belgium providing basic training and the Netherlands offering on-the-job training for the crews. "A nti-Submarine Warfare Frigate" [REDACTED]   Netherlands Artist impression Artist impression "mine countermeasures vessel" ECA Group  [ fr ] Piriou Sociéte Calaisienne de Réparation Navale et Mécanique Aircraft operated by 40th Squadron Heli , from

203-685: The Naval Component ( Dutch : Marinecomponent , pronounced [maːˈriːnəkɔmpoːˌnɛnt] ; French : Composante marine , pronounced [kɔ̃pozɑ̃t maʁin] ; German : Marinekomponente , pronounced [maˈʁiːnəkɔmpoˌnɛntə] ) of the Belgian Armed Forces , is the naval service of Belgium . The Belgian Navy was created as the Marine Royale (English: Royal Navy ) on 15 January 1831. This force has operated in various forms throughout Belgian history. When

232-469: The Belgian Naval Component has the following roles: M-class [REDACTED] (Belgium) 31 May 1991 (Netherlands) To be replaced with 2 Future Surface Combatant frigates. (Belgium) 28 Nov 1991 (Netherlands) Sociéte Calaisienne de Réparation Navale et Mécanique Note: 3 Tripartite class ships to be (as of 2024) donated to Ukraine. One of them will be

261-539: The Belgian Naval Component will manage, with the support of its allies, the crises rising from the infringements to the principles of International law and from the Humans right and exercise the Belgian sovereignty in the maritime zones where the Naval Component is qualified, defend the underwater communication lines, main roads and allied, and protect the ports against any air, surface or underwater attack. In times of peace

290-740: The Belgian Navy was to help secure the North Sea , the English Channel , and the Western Approaches in cooperation with other navies in northwestern Europe. The first major surface ships that Belgium received were six Algerine -class minesweepers from the United Kingdom. They also received the Agile and Adjutant minesweepers from the United States. Later developments occurred in the 1970s, when

319-505: The Belgian Navy where they were renamed Leopold I and Louise-Marie . In October 2005, the Wielingen -class frigate Wandelaar was officially handed over to the Bulgarian Navy , which christened the ship as Drăzki ('The Bolds'). The remaining ships of the class were transferred to Bulgaria as well, after completing modernization in Belgium. A Tripartite-class minehunter, Myosotis , which

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348-525: The Belgian government bought the schooner Louise Marie and in 1845 the brig Duc de Brabant . Louise Marie participated in the Rio Nuñez Incident in 1849. In 1862, the Belgian government discarded its navy and pursued a minimalistic naval policy. In April 1862 the existing royal navy was disbanded as an economy measure. The navy's personnel were transferred to a "state navy force" manning small vessels and employed in non-military functions such as

377-460: The Belgian navy, these cutbacks meant that one Wielingen -class frigate was taken out of service and that three Tripartite-class minehunters were sold to France. In 2002, the government decided to impose a "single structure" on the armed forces in which the independent Belgian Marine Royale ceased to exist. The former Navy became the Belgian Naval Component ( COMOPSNAV ) of the Armed Forces; it

406-582: The Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding facility. The ASWF was one of the eleven competitors in the Norwegian future frigate program. This program would determine which frigate design would be used to replace the Fridtjof Nansen class . In November 2024 the ASWF was not selected when the competition was narrowed to four competitors. Belgian Navy The Belgian Navy , officially

435-682: The Naval Corps, together with Belgian fishermen and merchant sailors, escaped to Britain with the explicit wish of fighting the German occupiers. The Royal Navy took advantage of this opportunity to enlist the Belgians into separate groups of more or less entirely Belgian-crewed ships. From 1940 to 1946, the Belgian Section of the British Royal Navy crewed two corvettes, ( Buttercup and Godetia ),

464-572: The Netherlands but apart from two units sold to Belgium, Portugal, and Chile are reaching their planned retirement age around 2020. However, due to extensive budget cuts over the past decades and other large materiel programs such as the acquisition of the F-35 for the Royal Netherlands Air Force , the Dutch Ministry of Defense currently does not have enough funds available to start building

493-523: The RNLN has no ships available to only fulfill the most basic of its duties (like supporting foreign navy ships along the Dutch coast). The costs for the 4 ships are currently estimated at 1.50-2.50 billion euro's for the two Dutch frigates and 1 billion euro's for the two Belgian frigates. Originally it had been hoped that the first frigate would be delivered to the Royal Netherlands Navy in 2024, while

522-658: The country became independent after the Belgian Revolution of 1830, a Dutch squadron blocked the Scheldt estuary . To deal with this threat the Belgian Congress ordered two brigantines to be built, which bore the names Congrès and Les Quatre Journées . After the French Army, led by Marshal Count Gérard , captured the citadel of Antwerp in 1832, the captured Dutch gun boats were pressed into Belgian service. In 1840

551-540: The first frigate for the Belgian Navy was to be delivered in 2027. However, as of 2020, the in-service date for the two Dutch frigates had slipped to 2028-29 with the Belgian frigates following immediately thereafter. In March 2023, the Dutch Ministry of Defense announced that it expected to deploy the first frigate in 2029, with Belgium deploying their first in 2030. The other two remaining frigates would be deployed in

580-527: The following years. A final agreement for the four ships was signed on 22 June 2023 by Dutch Minister of Defence Kajsa Ollongren and her Belgian counterpart Ludivine Dedonder . On 5 September 2024, the Dutch Ministry of Defense released the 2024 Defense Memorandum which sees the Royal Netherlands Navy receiving 2 additional frigates, bringing the total order to 4 frigates for the Dutch navy and 6 in total. The ASWF frigates are equipped with

609-464: The job, but those do not fit in the also outdated Mk48 VLS cells on board the M-frigates. Apart from these, the M-frigates only have a single Goalkeeper system for CIWS. Offensive capabilities are limited to obsolete RGM-84 Harpoon missiles. The 76mm cannon is not fit for modern semi-guided munitions like DART, Davide/STRALES, or VULCANO. Additionally; the RNLN searched for European partners to build

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638-572: The looming threat of a new war with Germany, Belgium once again resurrected its navy as the Naval Corps . This new navy, consisting mostly of small patrol vessels and coastal artillery units, lasted barely a year until the German invasion of May 1940. During the 18 days campaign , the trawler A4 evacuated much of the government's gold reserve to Britain, while several others helped at the Allied evacuation at Dunkirk . During World War II many members of

667-589: The natively designed Belgian Wielingen -class frigates were built, and in the 1980s when Belgium, France, and the Netherlands launched the Tripartite -class minehunters . In the beginning of the nineties, the end of the Cold War caused the Belgian government to restructure the Belgian Armed Forces in order to cope with the changed threats. This led to a reduction in the size of the Armed Forces. With regards to

696-543: The provision of ferry services, inspection of incoming vessels and charting research. The need for a proper naval service to provide coastal and port defence was raised periodically but did not progress beyond the retention as a reserve of four lightly armed gunboats, moored in the Port of Antwerp and crewed by members of the Belgian Army 's Engineering Corps. At the outbreak of World War I , Belgium had no navy (an impromptu force

725-580: The ships with and cut costs, and in January 2017 reached an agreement with the Belgian Marine Component to build a total of four ships together. This number could be adjusted later on during next phases of the acquisition process. With a total of four and two for the RNLN the current two M-frigates are to be replaced by an equal number. There are concerns about whether that number is enough to meet current and near future challenges, since it often happens

754-502: The ships. Therefore, lifespan of the current vessels has been extended until 2025. Keeping the ships any longer will cause problems with NATO and related tasks because the ships weapons suite is outdated and not up to current standards. For example: the M-frigates only carry 16 surface-to-air missiles in the form of the outdated NATO Sea Sparrow (RIM-7) . Onboard modern ships the Evolved Sea Sparrow (Block 2 in development) does

783-560: The title Future Surface Combatant . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Future_Surface_Combatant&oldid=1072848181 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Future Surface Combatant (Koninklijke Marine) The current M-frigates, originally all built in

812-488: Was assembled at the Battle for Lake Tanganyika ) but the war caused this policy to change and a Corps of Destroyers and Sailors was created in 1917. The Belgian naval personnel served onboard French minesweepers and provided the artillerymen for Belgian merchant ships. The Treaty of Versailles allocated Belgium 11 torpedo boats and 26 minesweepers. For budgetary reasons, Belgium again abolished its navy in 1927. In 1939, against

841-550: Was renamed Tsibar was transferred to Bulgaria soon after. The current Commander of the Naval Component is Rear Admiral Jan De Beurme (since September 2020). In February 2013 it was announced that Belgium had ordered two 52-metre (171 ft) patrol vessels from the French shipyard SOCARENAM, to be delivered within two years. Both were received, P901 Castor in 2014 and P902 Pollux in early 2015. The two vessels are to remain in service until 2044–2045. In times of crisis and war

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