Future Air Defender

	Early impression of the FuAD by MTG in 2020
Class overview
Name	Future Air Defender (FuAD)
Builders	ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems/Lürssen
Operators	Royal Netherlands Navy; German Navy;
Preceded by	De Zeven Provinciën-class frigate; Sachsen-class frigate;
Planned	4 - Netherlands; 6 - Germany;
Cancelled	6 (Germany)
General characteristics
Type	Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) frigate
Displacement	10,000 tonnes
Length	160 m (524 ft 11 in)
Beam	21 m (68 ft 11 in)
Draught	5.5 m (18 ft 1 in)
Speed	32 kn (59 km/h; 37 mph)
Range	4,000 nmi (7,400 km; 4,600 mi)
Endurance	30 days
Sensors &; processing systems	AN/SPY-6 in addition to smaller panels for a possible X-band AESA
Armament	1 × OTO 127/64; 2 x 32 Mk 41 VLS (64 cells); 2 × 21-cell (42 cells total) RIM-116 RAM CIWS launchers; 8 × Kongsberg NSM Block 1a anti-ship and land attack missiles; autocannons remote controlled machine guns;

The Future Air Defender (FuAD) was a joint program from the Dutch and German navies to find a common replacement for both the De Zeven Provinciën and the Sachsen-class frigate. The joint German-Dutch programme was cancelled in November 2023.

The German Navy decided to pursue its own project with the F127 Frigate based on the MEKO A400 AMD.