The Portuguese Navy has detailed plans for the modernisation of its five-ship frigate force, acknowledging that resource constraints will necessitate the re-purposing of its three Vasco Da Gama-class MEKO 200PN ships for lower intensity tasks only.
Speaking at the IQPC Surface Warships 2015 conference in Genoa, Italy, on 28 January, Vice Admiral António Manuel Fernandes da Silva Ribeiro, the Portuguese Navy's Chief of Materiel, said that the mid-life modernisation programmes for the two classes were being conditioned by three factors.
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