Naval Group Launches ‘Lorraine’, the Final FREMM Frigate for the French Navy

Naval Group launched the FREMM frigate "Lorraine" on November 13. It is the second of two air-defence frigates known as FREMM DA and the final FREMM for the French Navy.
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The FREMM DA Lorraine was launched from the covered construction dock at the shipyard in Lorient, Brittany.

The French Minister of Armed Forces, the Chief of Staff of the French Navy as well as Naval Group's CEO alongside employees from the Lorient site took part in the launching ceremony.

Lorraine is the tenth and final FREMM frigate built by Naval Group and the eighth one for the French Navy.

The shipbuilder produced six anti-submarine warfare FREMMs for the Marine Nationale known as the Aquitaine class plus two Air Defence variants, Alsace and Lorraine.

In addition, two FREMM frigates were exported: One to the Royal Morrocan Navy and another one to the Egyptian Navy.

Lorraine‘ sistership, Alsace, was launched in April 2019 and started her sea trials last month. Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, Naval Group still expects to deliver the two vessels on time to the customer: First half of 2021 for Alsace and November 2022 for Lorraine.

Following the launch of its last FREMM, Naval Group will gradually transition towards the FDI program, the next generation of frigates for the French Navy.

The steel-cut ceremony of the first FDI (Defense and Intervention Frigate) took place in October 2019. The keel of the frigate will be laid in the covered construction dock in November 2021.

Meanwhile two Gowind corvettes “for an undisclosed export customer” will take place and be assembled in the construction dock in Lorient. These vessels are set to be delivered in late 2022 / early 2023.

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[hazelhaley]

Such a modern design! Love from Indonesia

[alexanderlawson]

Excellent, great content, a fascinating source of Naval News.

[volt]

FRANCE.A GREAT NATION WITH GREAT PEOPLE. 🇬🇷🇫🇷

[wolfbleue]

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Vive la France et vive nos amis du monde entier 🇨🇵🇨🇵

[LEE-nhut]

Love you France from Malta you are the European Shield

[georgedelanoy]

Vive la France and glory to our army and industry 🇫🇷

[afiqdanial]

Please Naval Group help the Malaysian Littoral Combat Ship program to finish. I am sick hearing it been delayed again and again. From a concerned Malaysian citizen.

[deanhankio]

le bouton FEU à 2:05 .. je le rajoute à ma liste pour le père noël..

[rogerwillm]

Quels sont les noms des Frégates Fremm déjà en service SVP merci

[AG]

Good news for French navy. Buttress ships are of no use until France fights the internal cancer in the country which has massacred its own people from time to time. Love from India. 🇮🇳 🇫🇷

[PAPASTHEGREAT]

Bonjour mes amis français, je voudrais vous présenter mes excuses au nom de tous les Grecs que nous, en tant que politiciens et responsables, n'avons que des voleurs et des patriarches ratés, nous aurions eu avec les frégates Balhara et Fremm une arme super stratégique contre les Ottomans mongos et leur tête Erdogan, malheureusement, nos faibles têtes sont d’hommes politiques incapables d’agir raisonnablement et patriotiquement. Vive l’amitié gréco-française, vive la France

[CardinalLemur]

This music lol. I was expecting a MW2 fragmovie

[nasigorengpecelesteh]

Bentuk yang cukup menarik mono turet seperti japan mogami

[suzannegoncalves]

Encore 6 frégates fremm et nous avons une marine😁👍

[drewwagner]

beautiful vessel - in today's Navy large ships aren't needed with today's technology small frigates can hold their own!

[JohnSmith-flqn]

What is the maximum sea state they can operate in a combat?

[ignacioburkhardt]

Why is France developing the FDI Frigates instead of building more FREMMs? Is it a cheaper class intended to fill the gap or is it a more advanced and capable class?

[kornofulgur]

Fine. We need twice more to fulfill our commitments.

[paulsteaven]

So the Marine Nationale is now dropping their French-made 100mm guns in favor of the Italian-made 76mm one?

[curtistang]

The radar really likes a CGI animation.