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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italy has signed a €1.5 billion contract with local defense champions Fincantieri and Leonardo for two new, upgraded FREMM ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

French shipbuilder Naval Group delivered France’s first Aquitaine-class FREMM multimission frigate enhanced with air-defence capabilities on 16 April. Alsace: the first of two FREMM DA frigates ...