La Fayette osztály (Franciaország)

French Navy's frigate La Fayette completes her midlife modernization

La Fayette is a general-purpose stealth frigate of the French Navy (Marine Nationale). She was launched on June 13, 1992, and commissioned on March 22, 1996.

La Fayette began a major life extension upgrade in October 2021. The upgrade is designed to permit the frigate to operate through the 2020s and into the 2030s

The La Fayette class (also known as FL-3000 for "Frégate Légère de 3,000 tonnes", or FLF for Frégate Légère Furtive) is a class of general purpose frigates built by DCNS in the 1980s/90s and still operated by the French Navy today. Derivatives of the type are in service in the navies of Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Taiwan.
 
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Naval Group completes the modernisation of the third and last frigate of the La Fayette type...

End of 2023, Naval Group completed the modernisation of the third and last La Fayette frigate (FLF), the Aconit, after six months of work followed by a series of dockside and sea trials. With this delivery of the refurbished ship, Naval Group has concluded a major modernisation programme involving a series of three ships that now have new anti-submarine warfare capabilities and can continue to carry out their missions for five more years.

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The resistance of the Courbet FLF in the face of the explosion of a naval mine! This experiment called "shock test" was carried out to assess the resistance of the building and equipment to a significant explosion, in a context of increase in threats.
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