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France follows a very different path from the UK in developing area surface to air missiles for its navy. It is ironic that despite this it is Britain that had to finally adopt a French missile system.
Wheras Italy and the Netherlands puchase Terrier/ Standard ER from the US, France develops a French equivalent,.Masurca, which serves right to the end of the Cold War on three ships. Seaslug equips 8 ships but is gone by 1984.
Tartar/Standard MR becomes the lightweight area SAM for Germany Italy Netherlands Spain and Japan as well as France. Britain ends up with the more cumbersome but more effective Seadart. Numbers are between 2 and 6 units compared with 17 for the UK roughly.
After the Cold War and the earlier demise of the NATO frigate 90 (despite the name it was essentially a replacement for most of the ships above) the countries went off in various directions to design vertical launching ships to replace the Cold War units.
Significantly the numbers that could be afforded came down too.

<blockquote data-quote="uk 75" data-source="post: 523654" data-attributes="member: 234">France follows a very different path from the UK in developing area surface to air missiles for its navy. It is ironic that despite this it is Britain that had to finally adopt a French missile system.Wheras Italy and the Netherlands puchase Terrier/ Standard ER from the US, France develops a French equivalent,.Masurca, which serves right to the end of the Cold War on three ships. Seaslug equips 8 ships but is gone by 1984.Tartar/Standard MR becomes the lightweight area SAM for Germany Italy Netherlands Spain and Japan as well as France. Britain ends up with the more cumbersome but more effective Seadart.&nbsp; Numbers are between 2 and 6 units compared with 17 for the UK roughly.After the Cold War and the earlier demise of the NATO frigate 90 (despite the name it was essentially a replacement for most of the ships above) the countries went off in various directions to design vertical launching ships to replace the Cold War units.Significantly the numbers that could be afforded came down too.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="uk 75, post: 523654, member: 234"] France follows a very different path from the UK in developing area surface to air missiles for its navy. It is ironic that despite this it is Britain that had to finally adopt a French missile system. Wheras Italy and the Netherlands puchase Terrier/ Standard ER from the US, France develops a French equivalent,.Masurca, which serves right to the end of the Cold War on three ships. Seaslug equips 8 ships but is gone by 1984. Tartar/Standard MR becomes the lightweight area SAM for Germany Italy Netherlands Spain and Japan as well as France. Britain ends up with the more cumbersome but more effective Seadart. Numbers are between 2 and 6 units compared with 17 for the UK roughly. After the Cold War and the earlier demise of the NATO frigate 90 (despite the name it was essentially a replacement for most of the ships above) the countries went off in various directions to design vertical launching ships to replace the Cold War units. Significantly the numbers that could be afforded came down too. [/QUOTE]

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