The French Navy’s FREMM frigate Aquitaine has achieved a remarkable milestone by winning the U.S. Navy’s “Hook’em” award, a prestigious recognition for Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) excellence. This ...

The French Navy’s newest anti-submarine warfare (ASW) FREMM frigate, Normandie, has successfully conducted its first sea trials off the coast of Lorient. The trials were conducted by an industrial ...

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 ...

The Italian Navy has taken delivery of its ninth Bergamini-class FREMM multimission frigate, Spartaco Schergat (F 598), from Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), the joint venture between Fincantieri and ...

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 ...

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 Italo-French FREMM multipurpose frigate Aquitaine sails off the coast of Lorient, western France, on Nov. 27, 2012. (Fred Tanneau/AFP via Getty Images) ROME — As countries around the world, not ...

Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), a joint venture owned by Fincantieri (51%) and Leonardo (49%), has secured a $1.6 billion contract to deliver two new FREMM EVO frigates for the Italian Navy. As part ...

Fincanteri has delivered the multi-purpose frigate Emilio Bianchi to the Italian Navy, the tenth FREMM-class vessel to be completed under the European Multi-Mission Frigate program. The frigate was ...

However, the third contender, Spain’s Navantia, has been identified as the least risky option, and likely the cheapest to build. With a decision on the Future Frigate contract due within weeks, the ...

Her story, and that of Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri in America, which now builds the US Navy’s littoral combat ships and has been “down selected” (as the military puts it) to the final shortlist to ...