Royal Moroccan Navy to buy FREMM multimission frigate
In the course of French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s recent state visit to Morocco, the Kingdom’s highest authorities confirmed an agreement between the two countries to provide the Royal Moroccan Navy with a FREMM multimission frigate.
This multimission front-line fighting ship will expand the Navy’s operational capabilities, particularly for anti-air, anti-surface and anti-submarine missions. In addition to reduced crewing (a little over 100 officers and sailors), the ship will benefit from the many advances arising from the FREMM programme to produce a new generation of front-line vessels for the French Navy.
The FREMM programme — Europe’s most ambitious naval cooperation programme ever — calls for 27 multimission frigates for France and Italy. The 6,000-tonne vessels will be delivered in anti-submarine, anti-surface, anti-air and land strike versions to meet the client navies’ specific needs.
The FREMM frigates for the French Navy are being built under DCNS prime contractorship. These heavily armed ships will carry state-of-the-art weapons and systems including the Herakles multifunction radar, MU90 torpedoes and Exocet MM40 and Aster 15 missiles.
The first French FREMM frigates are under construction at DCNS’s Lorient shipyard. Other DCNS shipyards and plants are also contributing to the programme, along with a large number of partners and subcontractors.
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