Greece to launch talks with France over FREMM frigates, corvettes

[The Ronin]

WARSAW, Poland ― The Greek Ministry of Defence may acquire two FREMM multimission frigates for its Navy, and as such, Athens plans to launch negotiations with the French government in February.

A Greek source close to the deal told local daily Kathimerini that the decision follows an earlier verbal agreement between French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The Greek order could be expanded by a further two vessels.

Due to the cost of the frigates, which have an estimated tag price of between €500 million and €600 million (U.S. $612 million to U.S. $735 million), the Greek ministry is also considering the purchase of French Gowind-class corvettes for its Navy, according to the source.



The FREMM frigate was jointly designed by the Franco-Italian consortium of Naval Group and Fincantieri for the two countries’ navies. In addition to the potential deal with Athens, Paris has sold one frigate to Morocco and one to Egypt. Naval Group also developed the Gowind.

Naval Group says the FREMM is a versatile vessel enabled to execute a wide range of missions encompassing all warfare domains. These include anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, as well as land attack and command ship missions, among others.

https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2...ks-with-france-over-fremm-frigates-corvettes/

 

[Blue Marlin]

the french have been hell bent on trying to sell these frigates to greece, they even tried to sell some with some decent financial concessions but to no avail. given the size and cost of acquisition and maintenance id have to agree with the report and say they will either go for the gowind.

personally i think there a waste of time. you can easily have the same if not more firepower in a ship half the size of this ship. even for littoral missions there are inadequate. mainly because they dont even have a adequate ciws system. which basically means they screwed if another navy (israel, turkey or sudan) fires an asm at it, well lets just say their gonna be sleeping with the fishes.

or a custom ship based of the la-fayette, like the singapore formidable class frigate which has a a50 vls which can hold the aster 30 missile unlike the gowind which has only a mica vls.

http://navyrecognition.com/index.ph...te-fremm-frigate-acquisition-with-france.html

 

[Taygibay]

Apart from NATO missions,
Greece could do with any
small-class fast combatant.

Visbys, Skjolds, Houbeis all
driven by air assets around
a couple FTIs if they really
want a French product.

Because it fits their need &
means at the moment.

Political pointer : Tsipras and
Macron are quite chummy &
with similar generation / age.

And good day all, Tay.

 

[Hassan Guy]

Whabout the corvette the UAE navy bought from France