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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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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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May 11, 2021 (Google Translation) – For the first time, on Thursday, May 6, 2021, the Carrier Strike Group (GAN) on a CLEMENCEAU 21 mission engaged its Embedded Air Group (GAé) from the Red Sea, to the Iraqi-Syrian theater, as part of Operation CHAMMAL , French part of the INHERENT RESOLVE (OIR) operation. Return on this original mission. On the…
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April 30, 2020 (Google Translation) – The CLEMENCEAU 21 mission foresees the two-time integration of the Naval Air Group (GAN) formed around the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle in Operation CHAMMAL, the French component of Operation INHERENT RESOLVE (OIR). The first part of this support for the forces engaged in the Levant was held from the Arabian Gulf, from 24…
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April 27, 2020 (Google Translation) – “Finished bar and machines!” After two months of operational deployment in the Eastern Mediterranean (MEDOR), the Multi-Mission Frigate (FREMM) Auvergne is back in Toulon, its base port. Since its departure on 17 February, activity has been sustained for the “Auvergnats”, reinforced by the sailors of the 31F flotilla detachment. As part of the maritime…
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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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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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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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March 12, 2020 (Google Translation) – On March 9, 2020, the La Fayette-type frigate (FLF) Surcouf and the multi-mission frigate (FREMM) Provence had an appointment off the coast of the island of Cyprus in order to take over at sea in the eastern Mediterranean, on the western flank of the theater of operation CHAMMAL. Engaged since November 2019 in the…
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February 19, 2020 (Google Translation) – A month after the departure of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly went on board on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 while it is deployed with its carrier strike group (GAN) in the eastern Mediterranean in the part of the Chammal fight against terrorism operation, French part…
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