Recent naval operations in the Gulf have once again highlighted how rapidly the air and missile defence mission is evolving at sea. The release of
OCCAR announced on 8 January, 2026, that the Italian FREMM EVO program has successfully completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) across all three domains: Platform,
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri today laid the keel of the first FREMM EVO for the Italian Navy during a ceremony at the company’s Riva Trigoso shipyard.
The steel cutting ceremony for the first of the two new generation FREMM frigates in the “EVOLUTION” version, called “FREMM EVO”, took place today at
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri is showcasing for the very first time a scale model of the FREMM EVO at Euronaval 2024…
As part of the multi-year “FREMM” program aimed at the renewal of the Italian Navy’s fleet through the construction of next-generation frigates, Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN) has signed a contract worth approximately 1.5 billion euro with OCCAR for the construction of two new FREMM frigates of the “EVOLUTION” version, known as “FREMM EVO”.
