Video: French Navy FREMM Frigate Aquitaine fires MBDA's MdCN Naval Cruise Missile
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- MdCN Naval Cruise Missile 1st Launch from a FREMM |
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Video: French Navy FREMM Frigate Aquitaine fires MBDA's MdCN Naval Cruise
Missile |
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The
French Navy (Marine Nationale) has released a video showing the first
launch of an MdCN (Missile de Croisière Navale) Naval Cruise
Missile from a FREMM Frigate. On May 19, frigate
Aquitaine (head of the class and first unit in the multi-mission
frigate program FREMM) successfully fired its first naval cruise
missile on the firing ranges of the DGA missile testing centre off Levant
Island. This event marked the first time a European surface ship has
fired a cruise missile. |
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Video
of the first MdCN Naval Cruise Missile firing from FREMM Frigate Aquitaine.
Video: L.Bernardin©Marine Nationale/French Navy |
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Future
backbone of the French Navy, the FREMMs are heavily armed warships,
carrying naval cruise missiles, Exocet MM40 anti-ship missiles, Aster
anti-aircraft missiles and MU90 anti-submarine torpedoes. All the FREMMs
can accommodate a Caiman marine helicopter, as well as Special Forces
and their equipment. Six FREMMs will be delivered before mid-2019. The naval cruise missile provides deep strike capabilities within enemy territory. With a range of several hundred kilometres, the naval cruise missile is capable of destroying infrastructure targets of high strategic value. |
 The French Navy launches an MBDA Naval Cruise Missile from FREMM Frigate Aquitaine for the first time. Picture: L.Bernardin©Marine Nationale |
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