WASHINGTON — To meet the U.S. Navy’s famously high survivability standards, the FREMM frigate design has had to hit the gym and pack on hundreds of thousands of pounds of muscle in pursuit of wining ...

Finally the FF(X) can act as a mother ship for naval surface and submerged drones. The frigate is armed with a 57mm gun and NSM/Naval Strike Missiles to deal with threats usually handled by the Larger ...

The French Navy is maximising frigate availability through developing its approach to maintenance and operations.

PARIS, March 18 (UPI) --French shipbuilder DCNS this week delivered a third multi-mission frigate, or FREMM, for the French Navy. The delivery of the Languedoc was made to the Organization for Joint ...

Alsace is the first of the two air defence frigates to be delivered to the French Navy under the FREMM programme. Naval Group announced on 16 April the delivery of the FREMM DA air defence frigate ...

Lorraine will be the French Navy’s eighth FREMM frigate and second with enhanced air defence capabilities. On 22 February, Naval Group began sea trials of France’s final FREMM frigate Lorraine. Over ...

Shipbuilder Fincantieri Marine Group has announced further details on its plans to adapt its FREMM frigate, already in service for the Italian Navy since 2012, to design the U.S. Navy’s new ...

A scale model of the FREMM Evo frigate on display at Fincantieri's stand at Euronaval 2024. (Janes/Neil Dee) Fincantieri has started construction on the first of two next-generation FREMM Evo ...