NAPLES, Italy — One of Italy’s stealthiest and most powerful warships is preparing to deploy this fall with the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group in the Mediterranean Sea, Italian navy ...

The last remaining Maestrale-class frigate in active service, ITS Grecale , was formally retired on 1 April 2025 after more than 42 years of service. (Italian Navy) The last remaining ship of the ...

ROME — Italy’s parliament has approved the planned acquisition of two new FREMM frigates with updated electronics and 132 combat-version Leopard tanks as well as 140 other tank versions. The new buys, ...

ROME (Reuters) - The Italian navy will "in the coming hours" send one of its frigates to help protect the Red Sea shipping route against attacks by Yemen's Houthi militants, Italy's defence ministry ...

Federico Martinengo, the seventh multipurpose FREMM frigate recently delivered to the Italian Navy by shipyard Fincantieri, like all 10 ships in the new Carlos Bergamini-class FREMM frigate program, ...

A scale model of the FREMM Evo frigate on display at Fincantieri's stand at Euronaval 2024. (Janes/Neil Dee) Fincantieri has started construction on the first of two next-generation FREMM Evo ...

A wave crashes against the starboard side of the French navy Horizon-class frigate Chevalier Paul during the "Arromanche 3" naval excercise in the eastern Mediterranean in 2016. The ship class is in ...

French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie says talks have been virtually wrapped up on a 27-ship Franco-Italian multimission frigate program, and full-scale development and construction of the 12 ...