32-cell Mark 41 VLS for various missiles including
Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon[11]
Sea Ceptor anti-air missiles[12]
BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missile
Guns:
1 × 57 mm Mark 110 gun
2 × Bofors 40 Mk4 gun
12.7 mm Heavy Machine Guns
Aircraft carried
1 × AgustaWestland AW159 Wildcat + UAV
or
1 × AgustaWestland AW101 Merlin
Aviation facilities
Helicopter hangar sized for Merlin and flight deck sized for Boeing CH-47 Chinook
Notes
Mission bay under flight deck for 6 TEUs
3–4 boat bays for RHIBs and USVs/UUVs
The Type 31 frigate, also known as the Inspiration class, and formerly known as the Type 31e frigate or General Purpose Frigate (GPF), is a class of five frigates being built for the United Kingdom's Royal Navy, with variants also being built for the Indonesian and Polish navies. The Type 31 is intended to enter service in the 2020s alongside the eight submarine-hunting Type 26 frigate and will replace the five general-purpose Type 23 frigates.[15] The Type 31 is part of the British government's "National Shipbuilding Strategy".[16]
Designed by Babcock International, it is based on the Odense Maritime Technology (OMT) Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate hull and is marketed under the name Arrowhead 140.[17][18] The design has been sold to Indonesia as the two ship Fregat Merah Putih ("Red-White frigate") in September 2021, and to Poland for the three ship Miecznik-class frigates in March 2022.[19][20][21]
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