The FDI (frégate de défense et intervention or defense and intervention frigate) is a 4,500 metric ton vessel with an overall length of 120 meter. Its reversed bow gives it a longer waterline length to better hold a speed of up to about 27 knots achieved by the Combined Diesel and Diesel (CODAD) engines. They will join the eight FREMMs and two Horizons, bringing the total number of France’s first-rank frigates to 15. Read more https://wp.me/p3avY4-5Wg | Military Leak

71K views · 2.4K reactions | HS Kimon, 1st FDI Frigate (Belharra Class) Greek Navy Command | Naval Ships | Facebook

Footage from NATO shows a decommissioned frigate sinking after one of its submarines hit it with a torpedo during an exercise. | CNN International

684K views · 10K reactions | Ready to board ⬆️ A Royal New Zealand Navy boarding team member prepares for boarding. Our Navy frigate, HMNZS Te Kaha is currently deployed to the Middle East in support to the New Zealand-led Combined Task Force 150 focussed on maritime security in the Middle East Region, in particular the disruption of drug smuggling operations. #CTF150 | NZ Defence Force | Facebook

The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy. The Greek frigate Hellas (Greek: Ελλάς) was the flagship of the Revolutionary Hellenic Navy. After an arbitration hearing in New York due to financial default by the Greek government, she was delivered to Greece in 1826. She was burned in 1831 by the Greek Admiral Andreas Miaoulis when the government of Ioannis Kapodistrias ordered her turned over to the Russian navy. | Greek And Proud