Type 23 Frigates
(asked on 2nd February 2018) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how much his Department has spend on the integration of GWS 35 Sea Ceptor local area anti-air missile systems with the Royal Navy's Type 23 frigate fleet.
This question was answered on 12th February 2018
The integration of Sea Ceptor is carried out as part of a wider package of combat system upgrades to the Type 23 Frigates during a scheduled maintenance period. Precise expenditure on the Sea Ceptor integration element is not separately identifiable but is estimated to be in the order of £1 million per ship.