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DCNS Launched its 7th FREMM multi-mission frigate, the Future Bretagne, for the French Navy.
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Industry News - France |
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DCNS
Launched its 7th FREMM multi-mission frigate, the Future Bretagne,
for the French Navy |
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On 16 September 2016, DCNS floated the FREMM
multi-mission frigate Bretagne (Brittany) in Lorient,
France. The achievement of this industrial milestone marks an important
step in the construction of the vessel. It once again underlines the
dynamism of DCNS and its capacity to deliver six FREMM frigates to the
French Navy (Marine Nationale) before mid-2019, in accordance with the
Military Planing Law 2014-2019. |
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 The future French Navy FREMM Bretagne (Aquitaine class) launched by DCNS in Lorient |
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DCNS
has now floated the FREMM Bretagne on its Lorient site, the
seventh frigate in the programme and fifth in the series ordered by
OCCAR on behalf of the French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA) for the
French Navy. This floating, six months after the delivery of the FREMM Languedoc on 16 March 2016, demonstrates DCNS’s capacity to carry out efficient series production, ensuring that it can deliver six frigates to the French Navy before mid-2019. The FREMM programme is advancing rapidly. Five FREMM frigates were already delivered between 2012 and 2015: three for the French Navy and two for international clients, the Royal Moroccan Navy and the Egyptian Navy. Three FREMM frigates and one Gowind® corvette are currently under construction and at different completion stages at the DCNS site of Lorient: » FREMM Auvergne, which will start sea trials at the end of September 2016. » FREMM Bretagne, floated today. » FREMM Normandie, for which assembling is about to start. » The first Gowind® corvette, which will be floated on 17 September 2016. For DCNS, the completion of the FREMM programme will represent the construction of ten frigates, eight of them for the French Navy. In addition to the six frigates to be delivered by 2019, there will be two further frigates with strengthened anti-air capacities which will be delivered before end 2022. Link to FREMM Frigate (Aquitaine class) technical datasheet |