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During a stopover in Durrës (Albania) from 19 to 22 April, the La Fayette type frigate (FLF) Aconit contributed to consolidating the links between the National Navy and the Albanian Navy, allies within NATO, thus promoting stability in this region. On April 20 and 22, joint training and exercises were conducted in the fields of security, force protection , ship…
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From January 23 to 26, 2022, several air and maritime resources were mobilized in the French maritime approaches, in the Mediterranean, to ensure the surveillance of the Russian intelligence collection vessel Vasiliy Tatishchev. Falcon 50 maritime surveillance planes from the French Navy, Mirage 2000 fighters from the Air and Space Force, as well as the two La Fayette (FLF) type…
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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 the occasion of its return patrol to its base port of Toulon, after two and a half months of mission in the Eastern Mediterranean, the La Fayette-type frigate (FLF) Aconit took part in the exercise MARE APERTO. Organized annually by the Italian Navy, exercise MARE APERTO took place over two weeks in the Tyrrhenian Sea, between southern Sardinia and…
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After two and a half months of patrol in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Frigate type La Fayette (FLF) Aconit left the port of Larnaca (Cyprus) for Toulon, thus ending its fifth consecutive deployment in this region, marked by renewed tensions. on maritime issues. During its deployment, the Aconit ensured the continuity of the French presence in the area, showing France’s…
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On September 13, 2021, the Directorate General for Armaments (DGA) took delivery of the new installations of the first renovated La Fayette (FLF) -type Frigate, the Courbet , after a sea trial campaign. This program will see three ships modernized: Courbet followed by La Fayette and then Aconit. Fourth class member Surcouf is now part of the Mission Jeanne d’Arc…
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Launched in 2020, the quadripartite initiative brings together Cyprus, France, Italy and Greece. Its objective is to strengthen the naval and air presence in the eastern Mediterranean to reaffirm the attachment of these countries to respect for international law, including the law of the sea. Beginning on October 4 in Cyprus, exercise EUNOMIA 21 brought together the French frigate Aconit…
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On August 5, 2021, the La Fayette-type frigate (FLF) Aconit set sail from its base port of Toulon for the eastern Mediterranean (MEDOR) to conduct its second deployment of the year. Regenerated by a technical stoppage of three months, the Aconite and her crew reached for the fifth time an area of operations that they know well, barely six months…
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October 9, 2020 (Google Translation) – On October 5, 2020, the La Fayette (FLF) Courbet- type frigate landed on the tins line of the Castigneau 3 basin, in the Toulon naval base. This maneuver marks the launch of the renovation-upgrade program which will benefit three of the five French Navy FLFs: Courbet , La Fayette and Aconit . This will…
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August 6, 2020 (Google Translation) – On April 17, the type frigate La Fayette (FLF) Aconit left Toulon for a deployment in the central and eastern Mediterranean. Customary to the area, the Aconite embarked for the occasion a detachment of the 36F flotilla and its Panther helicopter . The crew was mainly engaged in direct support of Operation CHAMMAL in…
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