{"id":220,"date":"2015-06-02T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=220"},"modified":"2015-09-24T10:03:47","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T10:03:47","slug":"eight-aquitaine-class-frigates-and-five-new-midsize-frigates-for-the-french-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/06\/02\/eight-aquitaine-class-frigates-and-five-new-midsize-frigates-for-the-french-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"EIGHT AQUITAINE-CLASS FRIGATES AND FIVE NEW MIDSIZE FRIGATES FOR THE FRENCH NAVY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MN_FORBIN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-221\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MN_FORBIN-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"xlarge_MN_FORBIN\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MN_FORBIN-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MN_FORBIN-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MN_FORBIN-560x374.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MN_FORBIN-260x174.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MN_FORBIN-160x107.jpg 160w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2015\/09\/xlarge_MN_FORBIN.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plans for the future of the French Navy (Marine Nationale) were revealed by the Defense Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, during his visit to a naval base in Brittany.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minister, the French Navy will eventually acquire only eight Aquitaine-class (FREMM) frigates, instead of the eleven vessels that were planned initially.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the eight Aquitaine-class frigates, the Navy will build five more new generation frigates, FTIs (Fr\u00e9gates de Taille Interm\u00e9diaire or Midsize Frigates) in order to replace the La Fayette-class multi-mission light frigates. Delivery of these vessels will start in 2023. Once delivered they will form the future fleet of the French Navy, together with two Horizon-class anti-aircraft warfare destroyers and eight Aquitaine-class antisubmarine warfare frigates.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment there are 21 surface vessels on the inventory of the French Navy (of which 15 are front-line surface combatants). These 21 surface vessels comprise:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Two Horizon-class anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) destroyers,<\/li>\n<li>One Aquitaine-class anti-submarine warfare frigate,<\/li>\n<li>Two Cassard-class anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) destroyers,<\/li>\n<li>Five George Leygues-class (Type F70) anti-submarine destroyers,<\/li>\n<li>Five La Fayette-class multi-mission light frigates,<\/li>\n<li>Six Flor\u00e9al-class light surveillance frigates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Based on the updated French Military Planning Law, the French Navy will have to replace an Aquitaine-class (FREMM) frigate that was recently sold to Egypt, with a new vessel. The anti-submarine warfare frigate, D651 Normandie, was sold to Egypt two months ago.<\/p>\n<p>Altogether six anti-submarine warfare frigates of the Aquitaine-class have been ordered, and will be delivered to the French Navy before mid-2019. These are the:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>D650 Aquitaine (Already in Service)<\/li>\n<li>D652 Provence (To be commissioned in 2015)<\/li>\n<li>D653 Languedoc (Launched on the 12th of July 2014)<\/li>\n<li>D654 Auvergne (Laid down in 2012)<\/li>\n<li>D655 Alsace<\/li>\n<li>D651 Normandie\u2019s replacement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Two more frigates with enhanced anti-aircraft warfare capabilities, the D656 Bretagne and D657 Lorraine, will be delivered in 2021 and 2022, replacing two Cassard-class anti-aircraft warfare (AAW) frigates.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the FTI\/Midsize frigate shipbuilding programme, the first of these five ships will be delivered to the French Navy in 2023. This means that for a short period of time, the French shipyards will have to run two shipbuilding programmes simultaneously, the construction of the last vessel of the Aquitaine-class and the construction of the first vessel of the FTI frigate programme.<\/p>\n<p>The new FTI\/Midsize frigate will be a multi-role vessel, smaller and lower cost than the Aquitaine-class. No further details have been given about the new vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plans for the future of the French Navy (Marine Nationale) were revealed by the Defense Minister, Jean-Yves Le Drian, during his visit to a naval base in Brittany. According to the Minister, the French Navy will eventually acquire only eight Aquitaine-class (FREMM) frigates, instead of the eleven vessels that were planned initially. Besides the eight&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2015\/06\/02\/eight-aquitaine-class-frigates-and-five-new-midsize-frigates-for-the-french-navy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EIGHT AQUITAINE-CLASS FRIGATES AND FIVE NEW MIDSIZE FRIGATES FOR THE FRENCH NAVY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}