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 ...

ROME — Italy’s parliament has approved the planned acquisition of two new FREMM frigates with updated electronics and 132 combat-version Leopard tanks as well as 140 other tank versions. The new buys, ...

A scale model of the FREMM Evo frigate on display at Fincantieri's stand at Euronaval 2024. (Janes/Neil Dee) Fincantieri has started construction on the first of two next-generation FREMM Evo ...

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 ...

The Italian Navy has taken delivery of Emilio Bianchi (F 589), its tenth FREMM (European Multi-Mission Frigate) multi-mission frigate from Orizzonte Sistemi Navali, a joint venture owned by Italian ...

Emilio Bianchi (F 589), the Italian Navy's tenth Bergamini-class FREMM multimission frigate. (Fincantieri) The Italian Navy has received its tenth Bergamini-class FREMM multimission frigate, Emilio ...

Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), the joint venture owned by Fincantieri and Leonardo, has signed the Through Life Sustainment Management (TLSM 2) in-service support contract with OCCAR (Organisation ...

Italy's Carlo Bergamini (R) and other nations' ships take part in the multinational naval exercise 'AMAN-23' in the Arabian Sea near Pakistan's port city of Karachi on Febr. 13, 2023. (Asif Hassan/AFP ...

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 ...