Type 26 Frigates
Defence
Tobias Ellwood (Bournemouth East, Conservative)
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence whether he plans to incorporate the sea viper missile system and the SAMPSON multi-function air tracking radar into the Type 26 global combat ships.
Peter Luff (Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Defence Equipment, Support and Technology), Defence; Mid Worcestershire, Conservative)
holding answer
The T26 GCS programme is in its assessment phase and no decisions about which equipments will be fitted to the ships will be finalised until the completion of this phase when the main investment decision takes place. This is currently scheduled for the middle of the decade.