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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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June 14, 2021 (Google Translation) – On Monday, June 7, 2021, the frigate La Fayette led a Supply at Sea (RAM) maneuver to the north-west of Crete with the German supply tanker FGS Berlin , integrated into operation EUNAVFORMED IRINI 1 . Thus, 95 m3 of diesel could be taken on board in order to complete the bunkers and allow…
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June 10, 2021 (Google Translation) – From May 19 to 29, 2021, the frigate La Fayette was integrated into Task force (TF) 473 around the nuclear aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in the eastern Mediterranean. Multipurpose frigate, the FLF La Fayette was used for the purpose of mastering and controlling air and sea space in order to complete the naval…
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May 31, 2021 (Google Translation) – On May 27, while en route to the Strait of Malacca, the Joan of Arc 2021 group, made up of the Tonnerre amphibious helicopter carrier (PHA) and the La Fayette (FLF) Surcouf frigate , was joined by the Singaporean frigate Steadfast to conduct joint naval training. This PASSEX (occasional naval exercise) lasting a few…
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November 16, 2020 (Google Translation) – On November 10, the frigate La Fayette passed the baton to the frigate Aconit after a deployment of more than 100 days in the eastern Mediterranean. During this mission, the frigate La Fayette provided France with a means of autonomous assessment of the situation and of military cooperation with its main strategic partners, in…
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October 30, 2020 (Google Translation) – On October 28 and 29, the light stealth frigate (FLF) La Fayette and the anti-aircraft frigate (FAA) Jean Bart carried out joint operations in the eastern Mediterranean. These maneuvers, carried out as part of a Surface Action Group, enabled the two crews to evolve and cooperate as a constituted force, with a view to…
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October 28, 2020 (Google Translation) – Less than two months after the arrival of the Tonnerre amphibious helicopter carrier (PHA) as part of the assistance operation AMITIÉ, the light stealth frigate (FLF) La Fayette , deployed in the Mediterranean since July 28, made a stopover at Beirut from October 22 to 26. Capital hard hit by the explosion of a…
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October 20, 2020 (Google Translation) – On October 14, 2020, the frigate La Fayette participated in the combined exercise NEMESIS 2020 in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Republic of Cyprus. This large-scale mutual training, which brought together more than twenty units, ships, aircraft, military or civilian drones, consists of the management of a major crisis on an oil…
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October 12, 2020 (Google Translation) – “La Fayette” evokes, above all, Franco-American friendship and cooperation. Deployed in the Mediterranean since the end of July 2020, the first frigate in service of the Light Furtive Frigate (FLF) class lived up to its name by leading a force-based operation for several days with the American destroyer of the Arleigh Burke DDGH type…
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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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