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March 16, 2021 (Google Translation) – After its participation in the NATO exercise DYNAMIC MANTA 21, the Multi-Mission Frigate (FREMM) Languedoc carried out an anti-submarine warfare exercise off the Italian coast with the Italian FREMMs Alpino and Margottini on March 6 and 7. This exercise notably saw the participation of a French maritime patrol aircraft Atlantique 2 and the Italian…
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March 15, 2021 (Google Translation) – “The contact is good, classified POSSUB 2! “. The anti-submarine warfare officer transfers contact to the rest of the force, while the helicopter takes off from the helicopter platform. The sensors of the multi-mission frigate (FREMM) Auvergne and its Caiman once again show their formidable efficiency and will allow the vessel, along with the…
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February 26, 2020 (Google Translation) – The multimission frigate (FREMM) Auvergne is deployed in the eastern Mediterranean from its departure from Toulon a few days ago. After having conducted exercises with the Marine Officers Application School Group (GEAOM) deployed for the JEANNE D’ARC 21 mission, the frigate Auvergne operated in the central Mediterranean in associated support to Operation IRINI. Now…
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November 19, 2020 (Google Translation) – Languedoc is back in the Mediterranean after six-month deployment in the Indian Ocean. After a patrol in the eastern Mediterranean and exercise fictitious firing cruise missiles with units of the VI th US Fleet also deployed in the area, the frigate FREMM multi-mission) is docked this week in Toulon. Departing on April 25, the…
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October 7, 2020 – Secretary of the Navy Kenneth J. Braithwaite announced USS Constellation (FFG 62) as the name for the first ship in the new Guided Missile Frigate (FFG(X)) class of ships Oct. 7 while aboard the museum ship Constellation in Baltimore Inner Harbor. The name was selected in honor of the first U.S. Navy ships authorized by Congress…
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July 23, 2020 (Google Translation) – As part of its Far North mission, the multi-mission frigate (FREMM) Aquitaine contributed to the safety and knowledge of the Far North, by pre-positioning itself north of the GIUK (Greenland, Iceland, UK) and at sea from Norway. This area in perpetual evolution, represents today a strategic interest because more and more coveted since the…
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June 23, 2020 (Google Translation) – The frigate Carlo Margottini, has completed an intense period of training activity that has also seen her engaged abroad in the GABIAN 2020 exercise organized by the French Marine Nationale . The activity, which began with the support of the personnel of the Aeronaval Training Center of Taranto (MARICENTADD), was aimed at maintaining operational…
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July 2, 2020 (Google Translation) – This Thursday, June 25, 2020, the tricolor flag rose for the first time on board the frigate Alsace , the first unit of the French Navy to bear this name. It was in Lorient that Vice-Admiral Jean-Philippe Rolland, commander of the Naval Action Force, presided over this color lifting and had Captain Guillaume Garnoix…
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June 8, 2020 (Google Translation) – The sixth multi-mission frigate (FREMM) in a series of eight, Normandy has just been admitted to active service by the Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Prazuck, on June 3, 2020. Built in Lorient, the FREMM Normandie began its sea trials in February 2019. It was delivered to the French Navy on July 16,…
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