Type 26 frigate – contender for Canadian warship program – won’t be operational until 2027

One of the top contenders in Canada’s new frigate program – a ship now being built for the United Kingdom – won’t be operational for the Royal Navy until 2027.
BAE’s Type 26 frigate has been ordered by the United Kingdom and the cutting of steel started last year.
But the United Kingdom’s defence procurement minister Guto Bebb has told parliamentarians that the first of those frigates won’t be delivered until 2025. Because of testing it won’t becom