Italy's Fincantieri will build newest class of US Navy warships

[yortsed snacilbuper]

The U.S. Navy awarded Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri Marine $5.5 billion to develop the services' newest class of warships, called frigates.

The Italian Fregata Europea Multi-Missione, or FREMM, is a multi-mission warship that was one of five contenders for the lucrative U.S. Navy contract.

CNBC spent a day aboard the Italian Navy's Fincantieri-built Alpino warship in 2018 while the vessel toured the U.S. East Coast.

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri Marine has been awarded $5.5 billion to develop the U.S. Navy's newest class of warships.

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mamma mia

[ZZenith]

1. What's the Trump family kickback on this bullshit?

Newport News go out of business, did it?

[fantase56]

6. Beat me to it..... n/t

[Kaleva]

7. They will be built at a shipyard in Wisconsin

[Celerity]

9. they will be built in Wisconsin, so Rump can use that in the campaign as a bribe

Remember, if he wins WI and FL, we have a pretty poor chance of winning the EC. If those two go Red the odds are extremely low we can flip NC, or TX, or GA, or IA or even AZ, as the trendlines will be hard against us based off those 2 disparate states going Trump yet again.

We lose even if we hold all the ones we won in 2016 and flip back MI and PA. We would be basically down to hoping AZ flips and we can claw back MI and PA despite WI going Red. The odds of TX or NC or GA or IA going Blue whilst FL and WI go Red are super low.

[BamaRefugee]

15. This is why it kills me on DU when people say that us rolling out the vote is what will win it.

EVERY SINGLE VOTER in every blue state could vote 100% for Biden and we could still lose, with majority of popular vote.

The strategy and money and effort has to be spent WISELY in the most crucial states for the Electoral College win.

Sheer numbers mean nothing, didn't we already learn that in 2016?

[jpak]

13. WI 10 EC votes

ME?

2?

[ZZenith]

14. Virginia? 13?

Four U.S. companies got beat out. How much kickback is the Trump family getting from this deal? Might be decades before we know for sure but I’d be surprised if this deal wasn’t corrupt as hell.

[jpak]

16. What VA ship builder was in the FFG competition?

None

[ZZenith]

19. Ummm...

From the article:

“In February 2018, the U.S. Navy awarded $15 million design contracts to Fincantieri Marine, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Huntington Ingalls, Austal, and Lockheed Martin. The competition slimmed to Fincantieri, Huntington Ingalls, Austal and a joint venture between General Dynamics and Spanish shipbuilder Navantia.”




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington_Ingalls_Industries

[jpak]

20. None

Yup

[Takket]

2. we're not building these ships in the USA??????????????

oh... the Democrats have to RAISE HELL over this.............

and why the FUCK are we writing a 5.5 billion contract for warships right now? We have WAY better things we could be spending out money on............

[Celerity]

4. they will be built at Fincantieri's Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin

[dware]

21. Ummm, yes they are being built in the USA,

and it will provide jobs to American workers who will then be able to provide for their families and help the local economy.

[Celerity]

3. The U.S. Navy ships, according to the Pentagon contract, will be built at Fincantieri's Marinette

Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin.

[Kaleva]

5. Great news for NE Wisconsin and Upper Michigan

"The U.S. Navy ships, according to the Pentagon contract, will be built at Fincantieri's Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, which currently makes the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ships."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/italys-fincantieri-will-build-newest-class-of-us-navy-warships/ar-BB13ASFN?ocid=spartanntp

A better investment of money then the Littoral Combat Ships.

[backscatter712]

10. Yep. I was under the impression that these new frigates were needed because...

...the littoral combat ships proved to be almost useless.

[Kaleva]

11. I served on two of the OHP class frigates

A very versatile class as they could do tasks such as convoy escort duty, EEZ patrol, drug interdiction, show the flag, search and rescue or be assigned to a carrier battle group.

[spanone]

8. Oh, a trick question

[hardluck]

12. Good! FREMM is a proven design

And was the best choice submitted. Can we please stop building the Little Crappy Ships (LCS) now?! Maybe use the ones we have for breakwaters.

[nsd]

18. In case anyone else was wondering how you move a ship from Wisconsin to the ocean.

I looked up the answer:

https://www.jacksonville.com/news/military/2017-08-01/shipyard-mayport-littoral-combat-ships-pass-through-great-lakes-get-home


It's a long trip.