The keel-laying of the “Jacques Chevallier”, the first of four new logistic support ships (LSS) known as “BRF” for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) took place at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in St Nazaire.
Northrop Grumman won a $354 million U.S. Navy contract to start production on three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft for the French Navy (Marine Nationale).
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) FREMM Frigates FS Provence and FS Languedoc won the U.S. Navy’s “Hook’em” award. This is the third time (and the second year in a row) that the U.S. 6th Fleet awards the price to French units for their ability to find and track submarines.
The U.S. Navy and the French Navy (Marine Nationale) inked a Strategic Interoperability Framework (SIF) on 17 December 2021. The agreement paves the way for increased cooperation between the two navies for the next twenty years, especially their ability to “plug and fight” side by side.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) FREMM Frigate “Auvergne” conducted a series of exercises with the Hellenic Navy frigate “Salamis” off Crete, the French MoD said on December 14.
On November 25, 2021, the French armament procurement agency (DGA) took delivery of the first SLAMF (Système de lutte anti-mines futur) Future Mine Warfare System prototype…
FSAF-PAAMS program direction managed with its stakeholders the hardware validation of the redesigned radar cabinet of SAAM-FR system that ensure air defense to the French Navy’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, the Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation (OCCAR) said on November 30.
The French armament procurement agency (DGA) took delivery of the ‘Arbalette’ and ‘Arquebuse’, the first two new generation landing craft known as EDA-S. They were ordered in 2019 from CNIM for the French Navy and Army.
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78), U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft from Commander, Task Force 67, and the Henry J. Kaiser-class fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Lenthal (T-AO 189) began participation in the French-led multilateral maritime exercise Polaris 21 in the Mediterranean Sea, Monday, Nov. 22. 2021.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) multi-mission frigate (FREMM) “Alsace” entered “active duty” (admission au service actif in French) on 22 November 2021. It is the seventh Aquitaine-class FREMM overall but the first of two air-defense frigate in the FREMM DA (Frégate Européenne Multimissions de Défense Aérienne) variant.
