The Admiral Golovko frigate of project 22350 with a completely Russian-made power plant will be launched by July 1, Severnaya verf Shipyard CEO Igor Ponomarev told TASS.
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.
Day 2 at SNA 2020, the Surface Navy Association’s national symposium.
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.
The Belgian Navy plans to deploy the Léopold 1er (F930) frigate within the French carrier strike group, the 2020 operational plan of the Belgian Defense Ministry reveals.
In a European first, the French Navy (Marine Nationale) demonstrated a cooperative engagement between two of its surface vessels. The “Veille Coopérative Navale” test took place in September 2019.
Thales sonars and acoustic systems will provide the Spanish Navy’s five F110 frigates with a latest-generation anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability. The key components of the integrated suite are the BlueMaster (UMS 4110) and CAPTAS 4 Compact sonars, the TUUM-6 underwater communication system, and the BlueScan digital acoustic system already in service with other European navies.
Damen Shipyards Group and its partner PT PAL have completed the installation of combat systems to the first Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) SIGMA 10514 Perusak Kawal Rudal (PKR) guided missile frigate, the KRI Raden Eddy Martadinata.
Lockheed Martin recently signed a contract with Navantia to equip five new F-110 multimission frigates and their land-based test site (Centro de Integración de Sistemas en Tierra or CIST) – with Lockheed Martin’s first naval installation of its solid state S-band radar. The new F-110 frigates will be built by Spain’s national shipbuilder, Navantia.
The Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) frigate De Ruyter (F804) will leave for a six months deployment in the Persian Gulf starting on January next year, the Dutch government announced on November 29.
