The Type 26 frigate , also known as City-class frigate , is a class of frigates and destroyers being built for the United Kingdom 's Royal Navy , with variants also being built for the Australian and Canadian navies.
In June , the Australian Government announced that it had selected a modified version of the Type 26 platform as the planned replacement for its Anzac -class frigate. The amount of the contract will increase as the design work increases.
Planning for a replacement escort vessel started in with the ordering of a research vessel, RV Triton , to study whether a trimaran design was practical for such a large and complex vessel. More conventional designs however, were ultimately preferred.
In March , plans were released for a two-class solution, a cheaper "Medium Sized Vessel Derivative" entering service in β19 and a more capable "Versatile Surface Combatant" entering service around By early this had crystallised into the three requirements; C1, C2 and C3.
The C1 was to be an anti-submarine warfare task group-enabled platform and would displace around 6, tonnes. C2 was to be a more general purpose platform displacing somewhere in the region of 4β5, tonnes, and C3 was to be a Global Corvette to replace a larger number of smaller vessels in service, such as minesweepers, patrol and survey ships. The Global Corvette was to displace around 2β3, tonnes.
