Italy has signed a €1.5 billion contract with local defense champions Fincantieri and Leonardo for two new, upgraded FREMM frigates. Dubbed FREMM EVO, the platforms will offer enhanced capabilities ...

France’s defense minister Sébastien Lecornu also posted a day earlier an image from an EO/IR (Electro-Optical/Infrared) system showing the explosion of the drone. Identifying the location as the Red ...

Fincantieri has started construction on the Italian Navy’s first of two next-generation FREMM frigates, known as the "EVOLUTION" version or FREMM EVO. The milestone was marked with a steel-cutting ...

Italy and France will benefit from reduced maintenance times for their FREMM frigates by as much as 50%, according to OCCAR, a multilateral organisation that manages cooperative defence programmes ...

A keel-laying ceremony for the Italian Navy's first FREMM Evo frigate was held by Fincantieri on 8 July. (Fincantieri) Fincantieri held a keel-laying ceremony for the first of two next-generation ...

The Italian Navy has taken delivery of its ninth Bergamini-class FREMM multimission frigate, Spartaco Schergat (F 598), from Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), the joint venture between Fincantieri and ...

The laying ceremony of the first of the two new-generation FREMM “EVOLUTION” (“FREMM EVO”) Frigates for the Italian Navy took place today at the Fincantieri shipyard in Riva Trigoso. The delivery of ...

Italy has inked a contract for two new FREMM frigates, similar to the French version seen here, April 16, 2021. (Naval Group) Italy has signed a €1.5 billion contract with local defense champions ...