Die FREMM-Fregatte der französischen Marine gewinnt erneut den Hook ‚Em Award der US Navy – Naval News
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/03/french-navy-fremm-frigate-wins-again-u-s-navys-hook-em-award/
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Die FREMM-Fregatte der französischen Marine gewinnt erneut den Hook ‚Em Award der US Navy – Naval News
https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/03/french-navy-fremm-frigate-wins-again-u-s-navys-hook-em-award/
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FREMMs – though particularly in the FREDA variant being quite capable air defence platforms too – are ASW specialist hulls, so very good at this sort of thing.
Amusingly, this is the same frigate which the US :
1. Selected as the basis for their new FF-X programme because it was a mature and capable design
2. Fucked around with constant design changes to the point where it was a completely new, very expensive ship
3. Cancelled because it was now a very expensive ship
So they’re back to the drawing board (again) and still don’t have a functioning ship design, let alone a construction program under way.
FFS, just get something that will do the job and has space for upgrades, why they needs to fuck about so much I don’t know. Too many cooks.
Before anyone says something about this, no this is not the design proposed to the U.S, the italian Bergamini was.
The FREMM program was basically a huge publicity stunt to make it seem like it was a collaborative project similar to EuroFighter, this made it seem like it was a huge cost saving program because „on paper“ the same ship would be precured, so more ships could be ordered.
This was not the case, the ships are actually two completely different Italian and French designs wich share 10% of components, mainly the engines, both derive from 2 national designs of the mid 1990s.
The actual money saved was, according to the french government, 20 million €, not each ship, but out of the 8 ships, wich cost about 7 billion €.