Exclusive Tour Aboard Absalon Frigate of the Royal Danish Navy

[@BravoCheesecake]

For 20 years old that ship looks incredible.

[@TobiasLundqvist-ys2xw]

20 years is nothing in the navy's Really!!! 😊

[@Eckeroots]

Danish dynamite …

[@simonhultgren7778]

@@Eckeroots danish sitting duck*

[@nornimoller]

Thanks😊 im from denmark🎉

[@davidlefranc6240]

Maintenance is the key to keep things in good order.

[@JimmyShields-z2h]

Thanks for tour NN n Danish Navy, it will be interesting to see what sort warship will replace this class in the future, the lessons they have learnt.

[@rudivandoornegat2371]

Great ship with amazing capabilities. Good video report.

[@NavalNews]

Many thanks!

[@korybeckwith834]

To think Denmark being a small country and it designs such a effective multi role ship for its navy is impressive. I think this ship and it's sister class Iver Huitfeldt frigate have superior qualities than other naval ships on the market. The proof of this is the Royal Navy purchased a derivative of this vessel to be built by Babcock. Quite a accomplishment.

[@kesterdonner8190]

Top video, Xavier and colleagues! Currently being on vacation in Denmark, I always enjoy seeing Denmark‘s Navy vessels when we or them pass by 👍

[@NavalNews]

Thank you!

[@astizo8546]

Delighted to sea another example of the transparacy of the Danish armed forces, nothing swept under the carpet, humanized and to the point.

[@Sofus.]

Absalon is a cool name

[@miftah1277]

Go sleep with your mother

[@skodass1]

Named after the bishop that brought Christianity to Denmark if i remember my Danish history correctly.

[@Ktharash]

@@skodass1 The bishop that founded Copenhagen - lived about 300 years after Harald Gormsson, who, according to himself, christened the Danes.

[@TheChiefEng]

@@skodass1 Actually, Bishop Absalon of Roskilde was not the person who brought Christianity to Denmark. Officially, the person who made Danes Christian was Harald Bluetooth in the late 900s. Bishop Absalon was Bishop of Roskilde when he was awarded a land area by King Valdemar and that land area included a small fishing village basically know by the name "Havn" (Harbor). The Bishop built a small fortress on the small island that today is the location where Christiansborg Castle is located and that was the official time where Copenhagen was founded.

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

Diadem HMS Dido was Normandy with gale force winds and Russian convoy with my family on a full moon with late air support June 6, 1944.

[@kimkristensen2816]

Absalon has a combined 250 lane meter flexdeck and space for 2 LCP boats. It will normaly carry 16 Harpoon and 36 ESSM missiles. Hopefully its replacement will have a Mk41 VLS launcher to accomendate SM-2, SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles + NSM to replace Harpoon

[@forcea1454]

Doesn't have the necessary volume to accommodate Mk 41, and definitely doesn't have the sensors to make use of SM-6.

[@mkpoulsen]

​@@forcea1454What part of "replacement " did you not understand ? ....Besides Absalon does in fact have plenty of space to accomodate one or more Mk41 8 cell modules, though it would require a minor redesign and giving up a little of the flex deck ( where the gym is currently located).

[@forcea1454]

@@mkpoulsen Cutting the large holes into the ship's structure required for Mk 41 is not a "minor redesign", especially given they will be cutting through the strength deck amidships, where stresses are highest. The flex deck is more important than Mk 41, the Danes already have the Iver Huitfeldt class for SAMs and Cruise Missiles.

[@janchristensson2897]

A great frigate with a great range, 9k nm, and flexibility. i believe something for our new members of Nato Sweden and Finland to consider. And lets hope we can let the revenue of expenditure stay in the Nordic countries as well. Maybe even a joint naval task force for our Nordic navy's at least at international tasks far abroad

[@leifiseland1218]

Well, The Finns are already at work building their new "Corvettes", so they not likely to order any of these. The Norwegians, I don't know, they are about to buy new Frigates, but they will in all likelyhood be very focused on their situation in the vicinity of Murmansk. Sweden, well, while they are working on a new larger Corvette design, with the changes in geopolitics, Sweden really ought to add a set of airdefence Frigates aswell, & something based on the Absalon/Huitfeldt class should be suitable.. At the same time you have the fact that Denmark scrapped it's submarine capability after the cold war, which is unfortunate now, especially since it's a capability that is really hard to rebuild.. However, Sweden still has that capability, icluding designing & building subs. So, if Denmark & Sweden could develop close enough cooperation, both nations deficiencies could probably be solved quite efficiently, with local resources, benefitting both nations aswell.. Say Denmark ordering 2 subs based on the configuration the Netherlands/Damen version of A26 developed with SAAB-Kockums, & Sweden ordering 4 Frigates based on the Absalon/Huitfeldt class, & both navies working together on traing & operating the vessels..🤔 That way the capabilities of both nations could be radically increased very rapidly, & at a very reasonable cost.. Which would benefit the whole Nordic Baltic region alot aswell.🧐 The problem is ofcourse getting the politicians to allocate the resources.. it will cost a fair bit of money..On the other hand, with this kind of cooperation, the money would largely stay within the respective economies, so the effective cost for both nations would be limited considerably..

[@herptek]

​@@leifiseland1218I believe it would benefit Finland to have a couple of dedicated theater air- and missile defence ships in addition to the 4 new multi-purpose corvettes. The Nordic and Baltic region air defense capabilities would be increased by a notch should there be still more ambitious plans.

[@tobilikebacon]

Great video and even better ship!

[@NavalNews]

Thank you very much!

[@CHARLESFRIGATESYEO]

Nice ship

[@philiplewis8213]

The USA could learn from these vessels. Looks like a fine ship.

[@Sofus.]

You've tried that, but ruined it with feature creep on The Littoral Combat Ship

[@Endurer92]

Ask the Navy what the LCS became when they tried to Americanize the concept and the Iver Huitfeldt class frigate was offer in the FFG(X) program but was too "cheap" as it only costs half of the FREMM

[@A_Haunted_Pancake]

@@Sofus. To be fair, the LCS was a dumb idea from start to finish. I get that they needed something to keep American shipyards alive after the end of the cold war, but even then, it wasn't like the U.S. Fleet was just so new, that they couldn't have worked on replacements. But the LCS could superficially be made to look cheap, even if it "plugged a hole" nobody had seen in the previous 30 years - mainly because it didn't exist.

[@TheAslakVind]

Actually USN did learn from us. The Iver Huitfeldt class will form the basis of new frigate designs for both the UK and the USN.

[@fraserconnell21]

Starlink, I heard has issues regarding vessels security etc. I'm sure I'd read somewhere about a United States navy ship and the crew had starlink installed on the ship without entire chain of commands authorisation. It wound up in a disciplinary investigation. Now, I'm not too sure if That was because of lack of following proceedure or indeed due to a compromising of vessels security.. Great channel and we're always looking out for new videos 🫡

[@skodass1]

As far as i understand it it was mostly because it was unauthorized data access with what essentially was an unencrypted link

[@fraserconnell21]

@@skodass1 Thanks 🫡

[@aquelty1]

Starlink its not any problem. has long as its known, so its integrated into the ships EMCOM and infosec procedures.

[@A_Haunted_Pancake]

Starlink is perfectly fine for the Crews private use and it's arguably better to completely seperate that internet traffic (and related Computers) from the system that DOES need maximum security. The trouble in the USN was indeed a procedural one and the people involved should really have known, that what they did was not "The Navy way".

[@dutch6390]

Magnifique bâtiment 🇩🇰 👍

[@tankee1981ify]

@Naval News Looking forward to more updates and related info about the upcoming MRCV of RSN. 😊

[@hagiestianto9230]

5:40, talks about being able to support a variety of missions, and it shows a grill. Found that funny for some reason haha. Nice video though 👍

[@Factiverse_Facts]

Lovely ship

[@mostlynothing8130]

3:19 Holy shit, how young are the recruits? 😀

[@aarhusnord]

Cheaper to replace a four year old, rather than a fully trained recruit 😂

[@OdensColddry1]

thats our kinderguardian brigade

[@jedpcuk]

I know I am old, I was at sea in the 80's and 90's but we had to write letters, and if you were on a long 6 month deployment, you might get the occasional radio telephone call...LOL, now we talk about wi-fi onboard, and using phones to keep connected with family for retention purposes - which is great, but must be a EMCON / COMSEC / nightmare! 🙂

[@henrycobb]

Xavier, did you ask about the hotel capabilities provided to these container modules? Electricity, cooling, plumping, networking, etc?

[@NavalNews]

Yes, the modules can be plugged directly onto the ship for power, network, water...

[@WalterBurton]

Not sure how you mic'ed the CO, but y'all both sound great. 👌

[@AdurianJ]

This would be a perfect support vessel for each of the corvette flotillas in the Swedish navy.

[@A_Haunted_Pancake]

Agreed, Although finally giving the existing Visby Class ships their full sensor & weapons suite and building some more might be a faster, cheaper and generally better solution. NATO has plenty of Frigates, but an "LCS that works and isn't useless" would be a great addition - specially if there were more than a hand full.

[@maverick3644]

We will give you 3 of these ships, if you give is back, Skåne, Halland and Blekinge!

[@AdurianJ]

@@maverick3644 Malmö is negotiable !

[@OleIChristensen]

@@AdurianJ 😂😂

[@eouzcuemarz3114]

Looks like a luxury cruise Ship.

[@ioanbota9397]

Realy I like this powerful warships

[@jackedwards3426]

12:31 the UK Royal Navy flag on the danish uniform confused me a bit, can someone explain?

[@madsolesen4778]

Danish frigates regularly go through FOST.

[@lek1223]

Without being certain, in 2018 the ship/crew passed the Royal Navy Flag Officer Sea Training, FOST18, so it is probably due to that

[@Michael-dj6pd]

the captain mentions at the end, that they finalise training with FOST in england 14:12

[@maverick3644]

@@Michael-dj6pd I guess he did not get a "no more money" memo 😅

[@iandaryllvalera1227]

@Naval News do you have any merch to offer like hoodies?

[@NavalNews]

We are thinking about it... More and more people are asking for merch :)

[@iandaryllvalera1227]

@NavalNews looking forward sir thanks a lot! More power!!

[@PrimarchX]

I wish the USN had 30 of these ships.

[@buzz5969]

As a 26 year US NAVY SAILOR, served on 5 ships, Id say no. thanks. Arleigh Burkes rule, they are Battle proven. The would be good for COASTAL OPS.😊🇺🇸✌🏻🍻

[@PrimarchX]

@@buzz5969 I wouldn't want these for the role the Burkes serve. These would do the jobs frigates used to do and then some. They're leaps and bound more capable than Little Crappy Ships (LCS), that's for sure.

[@paparock3roll]

I’m pretty sure Indonesian Navy also use this ship design for their future frigate..

[@heuhen]

they mentioned it in the video

[@paparock3roll]

​@@heuhen No they don't..they only mention the Republic of Singapore Navy

[@DuaneCampbell-p3o]

Why did the US Navy piss away $B’s on LCS rather than build these under license?

[@rapamune]

Perun goes over the reasons adeptly on his channel, if that is something that intrigues you deeply.

[@DL-ps5hk]

Ikr, I'm not an expert but LCS, especially it's combat/weapons capability looks weak compared to other frigates/corvettes. It feels like an overpriced patrol boat😢

[@edwinchandeck7231]

Excellent question that I ask myself for quite a few years. Also this is exactly what the new National Security Cutter of the USCG should have been.

[@A_Haunted_Pancake]

In short? Because it was a "fresh idea" that could be made to look cheap on paper. Their purpose (even if the ships hadn't had all those flaws) would always have been a niche one, but the Politicians didn't care and neither did big Navy. "No proper naval threats now means no proper naval threats again". :(

[@druid84115]

Something like this would be great for Canada. Flexible, able to transport vehicles. Give it a mk41 and it'd be perfect.

[@pepitopalotes5608]

Can the two helicopters operate simultaneously or it is unsafe because there is only one landing spot?

[@ibkhansen8036]

it's amazing that they don't have it in a dock for those in the people's parliament have saved it away since they don't think it's something you need

[@marko100skive]

do's it work? or are the weapons still broken?

[@ianblix]

Wrong ship you are referring to

[@A_Haunted_Pancake]

One can only hope that recent developments like Ukraine have ended the Political effort to end heavy industry and specially the production of military equipment here in Denmark. That way the Absolon Classes replacement might NOT have to be built abroad - something that seemed almost inevitable only a few years ago. One positive aspect I see in that area is, that after a break of over a decade, there's at least 1 school that since 2023 trains new Naval Architects. We might even be able to safe / bring back some of our major shipyards, as long as the Government only tries to get out of the way and for God sake doesn't attempt to "help".

[@HenningMogensen-fx3mw]

had to give up the music too loud

[@RogerSanGabriel]

Sounds like Sean Connery great looking ship.

[@arveklingenberg6092]

How come that your ships are free of sharp missiles?

[@cameronjack1095]

They're in tubes. They showed them on deck

[@heuhen]

@@cameronjack1095 those tubes are for the exhaust, the SeaSparrow containers are mounted next to those tubes. They have no weapons onboard, probably because they have been staying in port for a prolonged time and dones some maintenance.

[@dennisnguyen8105]

Compare to u s warship this is a five star hotel

[@maverick3644]

I dont know man, some a the rooms you need to sleep 3 people! I want my own room 😁

[@mala7794]

ASW capable but no capsule around the diesels? Submarines gon have a field day tracking it

[@dedyprasetyo2020]

Fregat yg menginspirasi desain Fregat merah putih TNI AL Indonesia

[@bjorn2625]

Sort of. Red&White -> Type 31 -> Ivar Huitfeld -> Absalon.

[@mkpoulsen]

"We are actually quite quiet in the water "......🤣🤣🤣🤣....compared to a commercial high speed ferry maybe, but definitely in relation to a proper ASW frigate. When the Absalon class is finally fitted with VDS systems ( ca 2027/28) it will without out a doubt be the most noisy "ASW" frigate in NATO.

[@janlindtner305]

👍👍👍

[@LuqmanHM]

Malaysia should have bought this ship instead of stupid enlarged Gowinds

[@RA-II]

starlink is a bad idea with elon musk

[@NK-lh6ws]

3.1k to hit 100k subscriber

[@NavalNews]

Indeed 🙏

[@takaprawda6049]

It so happens that my country Poland has started building three Miecznik-class frigates based on the British design, from which the Absalan frigate also originates. Interestingly, there is a lot of space on this ship, which makes this structure suitable for deep modernization. Polish frigates will have a permanent crew of 120 people, the first block of the hull of the Polish frigate ORP Wicher is ready, 3 ships have been ordered, but the plans are to build 8 of them, we will see how it will be. It is a pity that so much time has been wasted in Poland and only now are frigate-class ships being built for the Polish Navy, but as they say, better late than never.

[@heinedenmark]

It's a Danish design. The British Type 31 is based on the Iver Huitfeldt class, Absalons less flexible but more deadly brother.

[@tlmoller]

Quite sensetive to wind… And in Denmark it is always windy..😂

[@WalterBurton]

Regarding Starlink (which is awesome): Elon Musk is like if Fritz Haber was kind of dumb and naive.

[@srenschjdt2864]

and guns that cant shot great Danish Navy

[@carpaullind]

Its not the guns onboard Absalon and Esbern Snare, who cannot shoot...its' other vessels in the Navy😔 Just saying... Former weaponstechnician.

[@fajarwisnu5231]

😂😅😅 kapal AH140 2024! TNI AL ke Indonesia💪🇮🇩🇮🇩

[@Abdullah_Al_Saud]

The presenter's English is not good...annoying to hear and wait

[@heuhen]

He is French I think, he speak with his dialect, just like anyone around the world does. Speak English with a Japanese, with your attitude, you will probably hate it

[@BertMerlin57]

Denmark speed ahead whit radar failure, wrong missiles and 1 leget pirates!! The Danish marine is going total down after Tordenskjold.

[@InfiltrateIndustries]

A navy commander talks about his ship and says “propel”… Which is danish for propeller. It’s a screw! In both languages. It’s not an aircraft!

[@OleIChristensen]

Still, you manage to understand the meaning of it just fine. Not everyone is speaking English as perfect as you - live with it.

[@KristinaUSA-x5n]

Probably related to my family.

[@miftah1277]

Go sleep with your mother

[@skodass1]

Who? the ship or the commander? Jensen is one of if not the most common surname in Denmark so...

[@iGottaRandomName]

Probably not.

[@Jimmy-ye3wg]

Draped in rainbow flags?, very fitting. The Danes should probably stick to making biscuits and water pumps.

[@MG-ll5nw]

man you jihadis get sooo triggered over rainbows lol or maybe you are the neo nazi gay hating flavour?

[@oisinmtom]

Did you confuse the danes and dutch? Showing your ignorance very much.

[@Jimmy-ye3wg]

@@oisinmtom the Danes are even gayer than the Dutch.

[@TheKyosanim62]

Another Russian troll... LOL

[@SvikDK]

@@Jimmy-ye3wg ahhhh...the side effects on glue sniffing is so present here.

[@claudioros3505]

Confortable and ready for peacetime...But is the ideal formula for the times we live in? I' m not sure..."A little bit sensitive for the wind"is not a quality for a war ship...

[@heuhen]

a comfertable and relaxed crew is an effective and good crew

[@claudioros3505]

​@@heuhenMay be, but you can't fight enemies with flowers...

[@WalterBurton]

👍👍👍