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The commitment ofAlpine shipto the Squale 22 exercise organized by the Marine Nationale, carried out in the waters between Corsica and the French Riviera, and included in the more complex Submarine Command Course (SCC). This is an exercise with a strong antisubmarine connotation which aims to improve the decision-making skills of the Commanders of submarines engaged in crisis scenarios by…
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From January 27 to 31, 2022, the Multi-Mission Frigate (FREMM) Provence took advantage of its operational break in the port of Piraeus, Greece, during its deployment in the Mediterranean, to maintain and strengthen the already strong ties that unite Greece. and France. On January 28, Captain Nicolas Vandebrouck welcomed aboard the vessel, along with the French Ambassador to Greece, the…
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On January 21, 2022, the A-crew of the Multi-Mission Frigate (FREMM) Provence conducted joint training off the coast of Cyprus with the Cypriot Navy patrol boat Ioannides. The two navies began the cooperation sequence with a scenario of countering an asymmetric threat, allowing the crews of the Provence and the Ioannides to support each other in the face of a…
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On January 8, 2022, the Frigate multi-missions (FREMM) Auvergne and Provence and Rafale planes from the French Air and Space forces operated jointly in the eastern Mediterranean, as part of joint maneuvers. After a simulated Naval Cruise Missile (MdCN) strike, carried out in cooperation with the US Navy, the two ships carried out an air defense exercise by interacting with…
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Everyone is at their post, all of the building’s capacities are checked: Auvergne is ready to accomplish its mission. Having left Toulon on November 2, the frigate is heading for the eastern Mediterranean, the theater where it will succeed the La Fayette Aconit- type frigate – as part of Operation CHAMMAL to fight Daesh – to ensure the near-permanence of…
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On November 16, 2021, during a patrol activity in the area of responsibility of Operation Mare Safe , currently commanded by Rear Admiral Valentino Rinaldi and aimed at the presence and surveillance in a sea area of high value for the protection of interests national and control activities and support to the national fishing fleet, ship Carabiniere – in command…
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Today, Friday 3 September, at the end of an intense period of preparation, the Marceglia ship , under the command of the frigate captain Francesco Ruggiero, leaves La Spezia to go to the Gulf of Guinea where it will be engaged for about four months in the ” Gabinia ” operation, a mission whose main objective is to prevent and…
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August 20, 2021 – The frigate Federico Martinengo, at the end of an intense period of maintenance and preparation, under the command of the frigate captain Roberto Carpinelli , he gave up his moorings and headed towards the Horn of Africa to join the European-led Operation Atalanta, born to combat piracy in the waters of the Red Sea, the Gulf…
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Deployed since the end of May in the Arab-Persian Gulf within Operation AGÉNOR, the military pillar of the EMASoH mission (European-led Maritime Awareness in the Straight of Hormuz), the Multi-mission Frigate (FREMM) Languedoc has been temporarily detached of Operation AGENOR to conduct Exercise TIGER EEL 21 in cooperation with the UAE armed forces on July 11, 2021. This predominantly Anti-submarine…
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June 21, 2021 (Google Translation) – Luigi Rizzo returned to La Spezia on 18 June. Almost 4 months after its departure on 23 February, the frigate concludes its commitment in the Gulf of Guinea to protect national interests and the safety of maritime routes for the free use of the sea. The numbers that characterized this mission: 116 days of…
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