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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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May 14, 2020 (Google Translation) – On February 22, the multi-mission frigate (FREMM) Provence set sail for a mission in the Mediterranean. As part of an almost permanent presence of French frigates in this area, Provence , engaged since the beginning of March in the CHAMMAL operation to fight against Daesh , has thus contributed to the capacity for independent…
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May 12, 2020 (Google Translation) – After its transit in the Suez Canal during the night of May 10 to 11, the multi-mission frigate (FREMM) Languedoc has just joined the Indian Ocean in order to relieve the air defense frigate Forbin in the AGENOR operation to protect the European interests in the Strait of Hormuz. This mission comes a few…
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