{"id":68499,"date":"2024-11-05T15:40:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T15:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2024\/11\/05\/europeans-start-work-on-next-generation-combat-ship-for-the-2040s\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:05:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:05:20","slug":"europeans-start-work-on-next-generation-combat-ship-for-the-2040s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2024\/11\/05\/europeans-start-work-on-next-generation-combat-ship-for-the-2040s\/","title":{"rendered":"Europeans start work on next-generation combat ship for the 2040s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PARIS \u2014 The European Union has started work on a next-generation combat vessel that could enter service somewhere in the 2040s, and the bloc\u2019s defense ministers may sign a letter of intent to pursue the project at a meeting in two weeks, the head of the maritime unit of the European Defence Agency said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six EU member states are \u201cvery much interested,\u201d including four with bigger navies, J\u00fcrgen Scraback, who heads the maritime domain unit at the EDA, told Defense News at the Euronaval conference here, after participating in a panel discussion about the plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU countries are estimated to need at least thirty combat ships in the future, though Scraback said he doesn\u2019t believe all of those would be built within the European Combat Vessel program. The EDA official expects the program budget could exceed \u20ac20 billion ($22 billion) in 2024 prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis new generation of vessels will be completely different from the vessels that we have now, because the naval warfare scenario is changing a lot,\u201d said Fernando Migu\u00e9lez Garc\u00eda, chairman of the European Naval Industry Group (ENIG) within the&nbsp;European Aerospace, Security and Defence Industry Association, who was part of the panel discussion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Design changes would likely entail having a mothership-type capability to carry drones into combat, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/global\/europe\/2024\/11\/05\/french-uk-naval-chiefs-urge-dramatic-changes-in-warship-design\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GettyImages-2126118725.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">French, UK naval chiefs urge dramatic changes in warship design<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">\u201cIf you stay with your old doctrine, you will be dead very rapidly,\u201d said French Navy Chief of Staff Adm. 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The agency held an initial meeting in July to gauge member states\u2019 appetite, followed by a workshop in September to hammer out the high-level requirements for the future vessel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future vessel will need to be a compact ship capable of countering \u201ca full spectrum of threats,\u201d including new ones from small UAVs to hypersonic anti-ship missiles, said Ignacio Cuartero, director of the EU Military Staff Concepts and Capabilities directorate within the European External Action Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">EU defense ministers will meet on Nov. 19 to discuss the project, \u201cso in two weeks\u2019 time, we will get a clear indication what the member states want,\u201d Scraback said. He said Spain and Italy are interested in signing on, while France is not sure yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Requirements for the future vessel include a reduced crew, and therefore a high degree of automation, as well as unmanned systems in a range of sizes, according to Scraback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based on feedback from member states, the requirement could be for a vessel with a displacement of 8,000 metric tons or more, Scraback said. That\u2019s based on factors such as modularity, the need to embark containerized payloads as well as the ability to equip many small as well as big unmanned systems, according to the EDA official.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By comparison, France\u2019s brand-new FDI defense and intervention frigate displaces 4,500 tons, while the displacement of the French-Italian FREMM frigates is around 6,000 tonnes. The anti-submarine warfare frigates ordered by the Netherlands will have a displacement of 6,650 tons, and Germany\u2019s future F126 frigate will displace around 10,000 tons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next generation of combat vessels will have to be \u201csmart ships\u201d that incorporate technologies such as artificial intelligence and a naval combat cloud, according to Cmdr. Alfonso Carrasco of the Spanish Navy\u2019s plans division. Modularity will be important to allow ships to switch between tasks, Carrasco said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hypersonic threats will require increased automation and AI to \u201cdrastically\u201d reduce reaction time, as well as interconnectivity with other vessels and drones to increase detection capabilities, according to Migu\u00e9lez Garc\u00eda, the ENIG chairman, who is also representative to the EU and NATO for Spanish shipbuilder Navantia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New directed-energy weapons such as lasers and rail guns will require different types of power generation onboard, including fast energy generation to power those weapons, he said. 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