The French Navy (Marine Nationale) started tests of the Link 22 (L22) secure digital radio data link. The tests were recently conducted in the North Atlantic by FREMM Frigate "Normandie" with the Royal Canadian Navy and the Royal Netherlands Navy.
OCCAR announced that the Italian Navy (Marina Militare) FREMM frigate ITS Martinengo successfully conducted the fourth ASTER 30 missile firing of the FREMM Programme on March 4, 2020.
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The launch ceremony of the “Emilio Bianchi” frigate, the tenth and final FREMM vessel– Multi Mission European Frigates, took place on January 25, 2020 at the integrated shipyard of Riva Trigoso (Genoa) in the presence of the Italian Minister of Defence, Lorenzo Guerini.
In the contest to build the Navy’s new class of guided-missile frigates, bidders are counting on power generation as the difference-maker as the service nears awarding a contract.
In a first, the French Navy (Marine Nationale) demonstrated a cooperative engagement between two of its surface vessels.
Interview with Vice Admiral Jean-Phillipe Rolland, Surface Fleet Commander (ALFAN) of the French Navy (Marine Nationale) about the shift to dual crews for the FREMM frigates.
The French Armament General Directorate (DGA) took delivery of the FREMM Frigate Normandie from Naval Group. Normandie is the sixth and final anti-submarine warfare variant FREMM for the French Navy.
Naval Group hosted the French Minister for the Armed Forces, Florence Parly, to celebrate the end of work on the sixth and final ASW variant multi-mission frigates "Normandie". The event was also a celebration for the beginning of the manufacturing of the FREMM frigates with reinforced air defense capabilities (FREMM DA) and of the Defense and Intervention Frigate (FDI), the first fully digital warships.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) Aquitaine-class FREMM Frigate "Bretagne" intercepted a supersonic target on May 12, during exercise Formidable Shield.
