A crew member stands aboard the French navy Floreal-class frigate Vendemiaire as it docks in Bangkok Port, April 2024. (Lillian Suwanrumpha/AFP via Getty Images) PARIS — The pace of change in maritime ...

The US Navy isn't the only force trying to shoot Houthi missiles and drones out of the sky. The French navy is among other allied forces working to protect commercial ships in the Red Sea. Last week, ...

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 ...

Greece will move forward with plans to add a fourth French-made frigate to its navy as part of a military buildup, the defence minister said Wednesday.

The origins of the FDI frigate trace back to France’s 2013 White Paper on Defense and National Security, which called for a fleet of fifteen first-rank frigates optimized for crisis interventions.

A French frigate has completed a major surveillance mission near Japan to monitor North Korea’s illegal ship-to-ship transfers. Japan confirmed that the mission took place from late October, marking ...

French shipbuilding, systems, and services prime contractor Naval Group has confirmed the handover of the French Navy's first Defence and Intervention Frigate (Frégate de défense et d'intervention: ...

(Adds details, background) PARIS, April 15 (Reuters) - A French frigate captured 11 Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean on Wednesday after foiling an attack on a Liberian-flagged merchant ship, the ...

French Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu (C-L) and Norwegian Defense Minister Bjørn Arild Gram (C-R) sign documents during a meeting in Oslo, Norway, on January 16, 2025. (Fredrik Varfjell/NTB/AFP ...