The French military’s Joint Staff released a video on Apr. 18, 2025, showing an action-packed engagement of a Houthi drone destroyed by an Aquitaine-class FREMM frigate’s OTO Melara 76 mm main ...

DCNS has delivered the multi-mission frigate Auvergne to the French Navy, the company announced on 11 April. This is the fourth FREMM frigate of the series ordered by Organisation for Joint Armament ...

Lorraine is the second of two FREMM frigates for the French Navy equipped with enhanced air defence capabilities. The other, Alsace, was declared ready for operations in November 2021. The air defence ...

LORIENT, France, May 16 (UPI) --French shipbuilder DCNS has sailed the second FREMM frigate it's building for the French Navy into the Mediterranean for new sea trials prior to delivery.

French FREMM frigates feature vertical launch system (VLS) cells capable of launching surface-to-air missiles. In the above photo, ...

June 7 (UPI) --MdCN naval cruise missiles have entered service on French Navy FREMM frigates, providing them with a deep strike capability.The missiles from MBDA entered service without fanfare in ...

The two FREMM DA frigates are intended to replace the French Navy's two F70 AA frigates Cassard, which was decommissioned in 2019, and Jean Bart, which completed its final deployment in March 2021.

Italy and France will benefit from reduced maintenance times for their FREMM frigates by as much as 50%, according to OCCAR, ...

FREMM DA Lorraine, the eighth and final FREMM multimission frigate on order for the French Navy, starts its first sea trials. (Naval Group) The second of two Aquitaine-class FREMM multimission ...

CAPTAS-4 is widely in use by “anti-submarine warfare (ASW) frigates such as the Royal Navy Type 23 and Type 26 frigates, the French Navy FREMM and FDI frigates, the Italian FREMMs, the Spanish ...

According to GlobalData's "Italy Defense Market 2023-2028" report, Italy's frigates segment is valued at $1.9bn, constituted mainly by the ongoing construction of an additional two FREMM ...

A French FREMM frigate will sail within a few hours from the French port of Lorient bearing the slogan of “Long Live Egypt” and led by a crew of officers and members of the Egyptian navy to arrive in ...