The Italian FREMM Alpino underway off the coast of Virginia during its 2018 deployment to the East Coast. (Staff photo by David B. Larter) ABOARD THE ITALIAN FREMM ALPINO, Atlantic Ocean — The Italian ...

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 ...

France’s defense minister Sébastien Lecornu also posted a day earlier an image from an EO/IR (Electro-Optical/Infrared) system showing the explosion of the drone. Identifying the location as the Red ...

Both the Italian and French navies are taking deliveries of their FREMM frigates as part of wider surface fleet modernisation and expansion plans. The acquisition of two new Bergamini-class FREMM ...

The Bergamini-class frigates for the Italian Navy are based on the Franco-Italian multipurpose European frigate design (Fregata Europea multi-missione or FREMM) the latest order is for a new ...

ROME — Italy’s parliament has approved the planned acquisition of two new FREMM frigates with updated electronics and 132 combat-version Leopard tanks as well as 140 other tank versions. The new buys, ...

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 laying ceremony of the first of the two new-generation FREMM “EVOLUTION” (“FREMM EVO”) Frigates for the Italian Navy took place today at the Fincantieri shipyard in Riva Trigoso. The delivery of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Egypt's first Italian FREMM Bergamini frigate has arrived at the Alexandria naval base, announced the Egyptian military spokesperson on Thursday. The frigate, dubbed El-Galala and constructed by the ...