Italy has signed a €1.5 billion contract with local defense champions Fincantieri and Leonardo for two new, upgraded FREMM frigates. Dubbed FREMM EVO, the platforms will offer enhanced capabilities ...

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 ...

The Italo-French FREMM multipurpose frigate Aquitaine sails off the coast of Lorient, western France, on Nov. 27, 2012. France took delivery of is fifth FREMM on July 18, 2018. (Fred Tanneau/AFP via ...

Workers celebrate the unveiling of the bow section of an Italian support ship at the Fincantieri Shipyards in Castellamare di Stabia near Naples, Italy, in 2017. (Carlo Hermann/AFP/Getty Images) ROME ...

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 ...

Naval Group has launched the seventh multi-mission FREMM frigate for the French Navy from a specialist facility in Lorient. Known as Alsace, the vessel is the first of the two air defence frigates ...

Lorraine, the French Navy's eighth and final FREMM frigate overall, and the second of two modified for an enhanced air-defence role, has entered operational service. (Marine Nacionale) The eighth ...

Fincantieri has launched the Italian Navy’s newest FREMM frigate, Spartaco Schergat, at the integrated shipyard of Riva Trigoso, Genoa, Italy, the company announced on 26 January. The multipurpose ...

PARIS, May 21 (UPI) --The French Navy's first FREMM frigate, the Aquitaine, has successfully conducted its first missile tests to verify the ship's and the weapons' capabilities. The French Ministry ...

FREMM DA Lorraine, the eighth and final FREMM multimission frigate on order for the French Navy, starts its first sea trials. (Naval Group) The second of two Aquitaine-class FREMM multimission ...

LORIENT, France, Sept. 3 (UPI) --French naval shipbuilder DCNS has floated a multi-mission frigate, or FREMM, it is building for the French Navy. The Auvergne is the sixth frigate in its FREMM program ...