The French navy is among other Western forces in the Red Sea working to protect commercial shipping vessels from Houthi attacks.

Naval Group handed over Lorraine , the French Navy's second FREMM DA frigate and eighth overall, on 16 November. (Naval Group) Naval Group handed over Lorraine – the eighth Aquitaine-class FREMM ...

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 ...

Sailors on the French frigate Lorraine have been training in counter-drone warfare and testing new equipment, firing at ...

The French Navy's Air Defense FREMM Alsace successfully carried out an Aster 30 anti-aircraft missile launch against a supersonic target fired from a Rafale Marine.

The French Navy’s Alsace frigate intercepted a supersonic target with MBDA’s Aster 30 missile, also used in the ground-based ...

Bab-el-Mandeb, Gate of Tears, strait on April 10, 2017. The strait connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, and separates Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa ...

The French Navy successfully tested a maritime drone from a multimission frigate, confirming its ability to operate automatically from a warship in rough seas, according to the country’s military ...

Italy and France are finally ready to embark on a vast program to build a fleet of multimission frigates to carry land-attack cruise missiles and other advanced weaponry in support of European ...

After handing over the FREMM air-defense frigate Alsace (pictured) to the French Navy in April 2021, the company began sea trials for a sister ship, Lorraine, in February 2022. (Naval Group photo) ...

The US Navy isn't the only force trying to shoot Houthi missiles and drones out of the sky. The French navy is among other allied forces working to protect commercial ships in the Red Sea. Last week, ...