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 ...

TRIESTE, Italy, June 6 (UPI) --Steel has been cut this week at an Italian shipyard for the seventh FREMM multi-mission frigate for the Italian Navy. The frigate will be 474 feet long, 65 feet in the ...

PARIS, March 18 (UPI) --French shipbuilder DCNS this week delivered a third multi-mission frigate, or FREMM, for the French Navy. The delivery of the Languedoc was made to the Organization for Joint ...

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 ...

Shipbuilder Fincantieri Marine Group has announced further details on its plans to adapt its FREMM frigate, already in service for the Italian Navy since 2012, to design the U.S. Navy’s new ...

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 ...

The frigate, Spartaco Schergat, is equipped for a broad range of missions, including anti-submarine warfare. Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), a joint venture between Fincantieri and Leonardo, handed ...

The New U.S. Frigate Will Cost More Than Expected. With the selection of a FREMM (Fregata Europea Multi-Missione) Frigate as the basis for the U.S. Navy’s future small combatant, the Navy’s surface ...

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 ...

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 ...

Naval Group handed over Lorraine , the French Navy's second FREMM DA frigate and eighth overall, on 16 November. (Naval Group) Naval Group handed over Lorraine – the eighth Aquitaine-class FREMM ...