Dutch Will Upgrade Only Two Frigates As Cost Escalates
Two of the Royal Netherlands Navy’s four Luchtverdedigings en Commando Fregatten (air defense and command frigates, known as LC frigates) will be modernized with new air defense missiles and technology from 2028. These are the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM) Block 2 missiles.
In 2018, the ori…
