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It's notable to state that the weapon system, OTO/Melara 76mm is one of the best naval guns ever created. In the Italian version otherwise it's even better because it uses a special technology able to make shells follow a laser toward target. It's unique in the world. Ultimately, in these days the Italian destroyer Caio Duilio is deployed in the Red Sea tasked with the mission of protect convoys from the Houti attacks. To this day, it took down 3 drones in two different attacks.
The French FREMM Alsace is also deployed in the Red Sea and is actually responsible for most of the kills of the European coallition: 6 UAV drones (for a total of 9 destroyed) and 3 of the 4 ballistic missiles intercepted Interstingly they destroyed one the drone with a 12,7 machine gun
@@IvanRoi_ of course. FREMM frigates are the best around. But it's curious that this time we Italians leads the mission and the French obey our orders. It feels new... 🤣🤣🤣👍
Nah, bro, Italy was the luckiest of the former Axis powers after the war because we had the chance to keep in service lots of cruisers and destroyers. One of them, the old Duca degli Abruzzi (Duke of Abruzzi) was refitted and became the first nuclear missile cruiser of Europe. Since then we always had a Navy up to the task.
The need for range for the French FREMM is due to the fact that France is the country with the largest exclusive economic zone in the world (11,691,000 km2), not necessarily to reduce budget. It therefore needs enough range (so less equipment) to pretty much deploy anywhere in the world, which isn't the case for Italy.
@@pdofficial3137 I'm getting sick and tired of this white flag narrative, so here is a bit of history for you. During WW2, France had to defend the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK and France. Whilst the Dutch gave up to the invader, the French kept on fighting for the freedom of the Dutch in the battle of Zeeland for 3 more months. The British were under French command and, without receiving the order and without notifying French command, they decided to retreat to Britain, hence leaving the French and the Belgians to defend the English whilst they were retreating during the battle of Dunkirk. To quote a german general in Dunkirk : "Despite our overwhelming numerical superiority, the French counter-attacked at several points. I can't understand how these soldiers, sometimes fighting at 1:20 odds, found the strength to attack. It's astonishing. I find in these soldiers the same ardour as in Verdun in 1916. We're not getting anywhere and we're suffering terrifying losses. [Dunkirk proved to me that the French soldier is one of the best in the world. The French artillery, so feared in 14-18, once again demonstrated its formidable effectiveness. Our losses were terrifying: many battalions lost 60% of their strength, sometimes even more!" General von Küchler, commander of the 18th Army of the Wehrmacht. France was then invaded and indeed collaborated with the invader, which is a complete stain on our history, but let's not forget the Netherlands is where the most je*s were deported compared to the amount of population. Little after France got invaded, the French fleet docked to a port in Algeria (former French colony) to keep the ships for liberation. The British navy arrived near the port (that was completely docked at port) and gave the French an ultimatum : either give the Brits the French ships away (because the French ships were technologically superior to the British ships and the Brits wanted them for the defence of their island), or get shot down. The French navy chose the last choice. (it precisely happened in Mers el-Kebir). So to summarize : France had to defend four countries (including itself), of which two of them gave up / retrieved, only to get almost their entire navy destroyed by an ally who, let's be honest, if it hadn't been for the German bombings on London wouldn't have moved a single toe to help liberate Europe. I am not diminishing the sacrifices that the English and Dutch have undergone in any ways, it's all politics, but in this story, the French were clearly the bravest. During the Korean War, the French were fighting in Indochina and Algeria (not saying it was justified, just to give context), so only 3.000 were sent to Korea. It has been reported by US soldiers that, at some point during fighting, the French ran out of ammunition. What they did to stop the enemy's progress is put their bayonets on their rifles and charged in direction of the enemy (c.f., Battle of Wonju). Out of a total strength of 3,000 men over a period of three years, the French battalion will have lost 263: this represents a loss of around 10%, which is the biggest loss among foreign contingents. The French UN battalion received two Presidential Commendations (awarded to units of the United States and allied countries for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy) from the Republic of Korea, three Presidential Commendations from the United States, and was cited five times in the French Army Order. These are a mere few events of bravery French soldiers have done, and as a final reminder : France as a country has won the most battle of all countries in the world.
European nations are like brothers. They will fight each other constantly but if someone outside family attacks they will team up and defend each other to death
Italia e francia in realtà hanno buoni rapporti da tanto tempo,entrambe hanno una storia navale secolare e collaborano in numerosi progetti militari e politici. Non confondiamo il calcio con con l'esterno😂, però sono contento perché insieme stanno facendo bene e l'Italia ha indubbiamente la marina più forte nel mediterraneo...
France 🇫🇷 🤝🏼 Italy 🇮🇹 & Greece 🇬🇷 in Méditerranée France 🇫🇷 🤝🏼 UK 🇬🇧 in North Sea and Atlantic Ocean France 🇫🇷 🤝🏼 US 🇺🇸 in Pacific Ocean France 🇫🇷 🤝🏼 India 🇮🇳 in Indian Ocean
The US Navy chose Fincantieri as the Italian company has three important production centers: Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, and Fincantieri ACE Marine.
True. Fincantieri is already implanted in North american continent, which is a big advantage over Naval Group, for this contract. Naval Group is more implanted in other countries or continents, Naval Group is selling well in Asia, which is a rising region.
@@jingorooroad2559 Fincantieri and the Indonesian Ministry of Defense have signed a contract for the supply of two PPA units (multi-purpose offshore patrol vessels), for a value of 1.18 billion euros
@@jingorooroad2559 Fincantieri and the Indonesian Ministry of Defense signed a contract on 4/28/2024. The 2 ships originally intended for the Italian Navy are currently under construction at the Riva Trigoso shipyard, Italy
It doesn't matter who got more frigates than the other... we're like cousins, EU and NATO members. If one needs full power in combat, the other will come assisting.
I mean...that is true if Europe won't have It's hands full with Russia in the future, if Ukraine wins and Russia is safely contained Europe won't have major threat's and could assist the US otherwise it would be a lot more difficult
@@alexd832 Ukraine isn't a European country member, nor a NATO member. Which is a big difference. If someone will go to far, it's mostly NATO countries around Ukraine.
@@jingorooroad2559 To a certain extent, both Ukraine and Russia are European nations, and to the same extent both are not. The Russian soul reached Europe as much as the European soul reached Russia.
Hey everyone, after reading some comment it seems there's a bit of a misunderstanding in ship classification, so some countries don't use the word destroyer, I'm French and i know the german don't too, the whole torpedo boat destroyer thing is "contre torpilleur" in French, literally counter torpedo boat, we are not going to call it a "contre", so we have first rank and second rank frigates, something like a Lafayette FLF class will have "F710" on the hull while a FREMM or Newer FDI will have a "D650" to separate them from the lower tier ships The Chevalier Paul which in France is classified has a "Frégate de Défense Aérienne (FDA)" is known internationally has Missile Destroyer Chevalier Paul D617
Italy did not received 10 FREMM (not yet) ,as 2 were sold to Egypt before completion. 2 More FREMMs, are now under construction and 2 more have been ordered for a total of 12 ships. The 2 FREMMs under construction which will replace the ones sold, will be upgraded to the "Plus" variant, a full GP frigate with a complete ASW suite on top. The next two FREMMs, still in the design phase, will be upgraded to the EVO stage with a similar command bridge and radar suit to that of the PPA (Thaon di Revel class), with a mix of improved Aster 30 and CAMM-ER missiles. The displacement of these ships will increase accordingly despite a larger use of composites in the superstructures. I never heard of the Bergamini being "faster" then the Aquitaine, having the exact same set up of engines and lenght and both reaching slightly above 26 knots. 3:09 The OTOMAT is NOT "less modern" or "Cheaper" then the Exocet: please check your sources! Teseo Mk2/A actually is a younger and more expensive missile then the French Exocet (MM40 Block 3): it is also notably heavier with almost double the warhead and a longer range. The Teseo Mk2/A is closer to a cruise missile, able to strike sea and land targets while the Exocet is strictly an anti ship weapon. The differences in weight are easily understood as the Exocet was borne as an Air to Sea weapon, while the Otomat is just too heavy for that use and Italy employs the Marte on planes and helicopters. The reason for the different choice is that the French "Offensive" FREMMs (Alsace and Loraine) are equipped with Sliver 70 PAMM launchers, able to fire SCALP cruise missiles for ground objective targeting, while the Italian frigates do not carry the SCALP and employ the Teseo for all kind of offensive roles. All the other french FREMM are in the ASW set up. About the Constellation, I think the navy will come to regret the decision to stick with tiny 57mm guns: Italian and French ships are shooting down Houti drones with 76mm cannons which are effective at range, cheap to use and easy to restock, while the USN has to shot them down with AA missiles that costs orders of magnitudes more then the target they are supposed to "Kill": we could say that when an AA missile intercepts a drone, it is the drone that gets the kill! 😑
@@maxharbig1167 Fair point, but the video seems to be merely trying to use the term as a simple past tense. To put it simply: “Cost” relates to the value of things, tangible or not, and it’s worth. It has the same form for present, past and past participle - “Cost”, which is the form you should use more. However, “Costed” can be used in an accounting context, to indicate the estimated cost of something. I should have been more precise in my post.
has a french dude i think that project that we do with italy and also sometimes britain seems to pan out much more compared to colab that include germany for some reason
I don't know why we keep trying to work on huge projects with the germans. It's much more effective when we work with Italians as they know what they want and are not double sided.
@@alexd832 no they are the worst partner, A400M development was a mess because Germans needs were irrelevant and changes every day, same for eurofighter Germany impose ventral jet inlets
@@durchschnittlicherzuschaue9733 Keep in mind France don't need germany to design anything unlike germany. Also any project with France and any other country is a success but when germany is involved it always messy and inneficient. Germany can't even buy European plane (P-8A Poseidon, F35...)
the Indian Navy could do with a slightly modified, larger variant of the FREMM line of frigates . . . a fleet of 26 brand new Carlo Bergamini class 6,382 ton (8,230 ton loaded) stealth guided missile advanced warfare frigate powered by iFuelCell2® RedOX-HYBRId™ M-FEP system . . . 14 of the 26 units will designed & built by Naval Group at their naval maritime shipyards in Marseille, France . . . remaining 12 units will be assembled in India (under licence) from pre-built modular assembly kits at MDL Maritime Shipyards Goa, India . . . this way the per unit price can be reduced significantly, lot less than €840 Mn . . .
And the US has already modified the hullform and subsequently everything that needs to be attached to the hull. It is now a bespoke design and correspondingly expensive.
Everyone remember this video when the Internet trolls argue that the USA will never buy a foreign weapons system and deliberately undermine other countries’ military contracts. This is one of many US / ? Collaboration on defense. ( I personally wish the US would team up with UK for the challenger 3)
the US spent far too much for their equipment, I mean the budget is higher as all other military together. Many US weapon manufacturers took profit knowing that the US will never acquire foreign designs, as they chose the FREMM this was a mayor shock, some lobbyist wanted even to block the deal. Now they have to come down with the price. how is it possible that countries like Russia or China with less money and far less capable technology could keep up with the US?
@@Ezekiel903 took too much abusive profits. They never have been independent, they're still buying plenty of European equipments, Safran, Thales, etc ... won many contracts in the last 5 years.
The changes of the original design of the FREMM by the USN are so important that all the blueprints of the Italian ship have been modified. And the funniest thing is that some of those mods make operating the ship on heavy sea "problematic" unlike the original FREMM.
If you think that the Arleigh burke classe cost nearly as much as one of the worlds best destroyer, Italian-French Orizzonte classe, they you note how the US miil. ind. complex fooled the US DEF. DEP. with their lobbing! happy they send a signal, that the US army is not more willing to pay this prices!! that's the only reason that countries like Russia or now China could keep up despite spending 5 times less money!
The makers of the FREMM missed a big opportunity with Canada. Canada was choosing a replacement for its current frigates and destroyers (one basic hull design, two variants). A competition was held between British, German, and (I think) Netherlands' designs for the basic design. But the FREMM manufacturers declined to compete in the contest with the FREMM design while the Canadian government was asking for designs. Instead the FREMM team tried to wait until the Canadian decision was already made (for a version of the UK Type 26), and tried to sneak in at the last minute with an off-the-shelf design that would undercut the Type 26 on price, and maybe use political pressure to get the decision changed. However, the sales strategy failed totally, as they were told that they had wanted the business, they should have participated the selection process properly, not tried to do an end-run around it.
The type 26 suits our needs better imo. Tbh if the Americans hadn't stipulated only operational designs in their design brief they probably would have opted for the type 26 as well. Hopefully the program doesn't get cut.
It's not the French FREMM, and USA wants the Italian Variant , because it's better, bigger , carries better missiles , and higher top speed , the cargo space is bigger and it can carey 2 helicopters compared tot the France version that carries 1
Us Navy a aussi acheté une soixantaine de sonar Captar-4 de THALES pour équiper ses navires, le développement du sien a été laborieux et finalement moins efficace, donc ils l'ont abandonné.
@@jean-philippebobin3732 People are coming with weird assumptions sometimes, or lack of logic. France got the world's biggest sea territories and EEZ, and their boats are only good for the Mediterranean sea.
Carriers avoid Tropical revolving storms, there are clips on UA-cam of older French Frigates in some seriously gnarly conditions, remember France has waters bordering the English Channel and the notorious bay of Biscay.
Americans have bought the french sonar Captar-4 from THALES because the american research of the equivalent was far from being as efficient. Finally, after having lost millions on the research, they opted for the french sonar, actually the best sonar in the western camp.
I'm sure it's a great vessel, but the timing is peculiar. US announcing their decision to buy from Italy, and Italy canceling their MOU with China's BRI. This looks and smells like an agreement.
Why the FREMM? Easy to say, because the NAVY screwed everything with the Little Crappy Ships' program, it's embarassing that the 1rst world's economy wasn't able to build a decent ship to replace the Perry class.
Italy and French are in a new project, to replace their horizon classe destroyer, on YT with "DDX Class Destroyer - Italian Navy - Marina Militare" DDX classe, over 12'000 tons, between 64-92 VLS cells etc.
@@jacopomainoldi9025 French navy generaly prefer to own many ship but less arm. Due to our territory it would cost us way too much otherwise. Yet our navy is very recent and under huge modenisation.
with the Trieste they have already a 30'000ton carrier, new build, but Italian like Japan, their carrier can not only carry planes, but also entire landing brigades!
no, same project with slightly different designs! like the horizon destroyer, it was a French-Italian project, only some slightly modification were made to fulfill the different request!
The things the US Constellation class only has 15% commonality with its Italian parent design. What was the point of picking an existing design if you are going to change it so much.
it has far more then only 15%, would like to know how you get this number, it would make absolutely no sense, than they could simply buy the basic structure design of license, which would be far cheaper, but alone that Fincantieri bought Marinette and other Shipyards to build it, shows a different picture!
@@Ezekiel903He is right. The USN modified all the blueprints of the original design, so much than the ship seem to have problems on heavy sea. "The design of the Constellation-class ships is based on the Italian FREMM multi-mission frigate parent design that was modified by ship designer Gibbs & Cox to accommodate Navy survivability and equipment requirements. The Leidos subsidiary, Fincantieri and Naval Sea Systems Command wrestled with Americanizing the FREMM design for two and half years before it hit the 80 percent design completion and could begin fabrication on Constellation in 2022. The modification of the design altered almost every drawing of the FREMM and required review from NAVSEA, USNI News understands. “[The Navy] and the shipbuilder agreed that design maturity was probably the single biggest factor we could do to reduce the risk of production,” former program executive officer for unmanned and small combatants Rear Adm. Casey Moton said in August of 2022. For example, testing at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock found that the modified design did not meet service standards for operating in heavy seas, necessitating design changes that ate into the schedule margin the yard wanted to have for the first-in-class ship. “We were already into the functional and detail design when that report came from Carderock - something of a surprise because the parent design didn’t really have that,” Vandroff said." news.usni.org/2024/01/11/first-constellation-frigate-delayed-at-least-a-year-schedule-assessment-ongoing
It's kinda wrong when he said in the video "the Italian FREMM is better armed". Since the French FREMM are actually using better missiles and electronics systems. The Thales systems already proven to be better and superiors, as it performed better in the deployment in red sea, but also by winning competitions many years in a row.
You can look up on the internet , French navy uses better Anti - Ship missiles but more expensive , but the Italian Navy uses Aster 30 missiles compared to Aster 15 used by France as an air tot air missiles , plus Italy FREMM has more auto super fast cannons tha the French one
Wrong the US Navy (NavSea) modified the FREMM to the point only 15% of the design can be attributed tothe FREMM. Including no espresso machines and a 17 pound bofors. 57 mm
it has far more then only 15%, would like to know how you get this number, it would make absolutely no sense, than they could simply buy the basic structure design of license, which would be far cheaper, but alone that Fincantieri bought Marinette and other Shipyards to build it, shows a different picture!
The French budget cut is a lesson of why austerity is a short sighted profoundly dumb policy. In the end France paid the 8 FREMMs the price of the initial 17 because the economy of scale wasn't there anymore. Regarding the capacities of the FREMM, France would have had a monstrously powerful navy today, probably far above any european Navy, Russia and Turkey included.
Wrong. What they're actually designing is an american variant which roughly has the same hull shape. Which means they redesigning about way more than half the ship. Hull shape is intricate but fairly basic crap. The magic is in conduits and cable laying snd compartments. Which is why they're going to run 3, yes 3! Years late.
No, the Italian FREMM is not better armed than the French one... The electronics systems (Thales) is better on the French frigate, as well as its Exocet missiles. But the strategic advantage she has is the MdCN land-attack cruise missiles, a decisive asset, and the italian FREMM doesn't have any. So, please stop talking nonsense.
Type 26 is not yet operational, Type 45 is a fantastic platform, been plagued by problems and its major weakness is its ammunition capacity as we have seen in red sea operations.
It's notable to state that the weapon system, OTO/Melara 76mm is one of the best naval guns ever created.
In the Italian version otherwise it's even better because it uses a special technology able to make shells follow a laser toward target.
It's unique in the world.
Ultimately, in these days the Italian destroyer Caio Duilio is deployed in the Red Sea tasked with the mission of protect convoys from the Houti attacks.
To this day, it took down 3 drones in two different attacks.
It is a great gun and OTO have a long history of great guns.
using this new ammo, this proved the capability of this shells, a missile cost far more! big step for naval cannon.
The French FREMM Alsace is also deployed in the Red Sea and is actually responsible for most of the kills of the European coallition: 6 UAV drones (for a total of 9 destroyed) and 3 of the 4 ballistic missiles intercepted
Interstingly they destroyed one the drone with a 12,7 machine gun
@@IvanRoi_ of course. FREMM frigates are the best around. But it's curious that this time we Italians leads the mission and the French obey our orders.
It feels new... 🤣🤣🤣👍
@@danielefabbro822 Ahah I guess it's a sign of mutual respect that I can only support!
Nah, bro, Italy was the luckiest of the former Axis powers after the war because we had the chance to keep in service lots of cruisers and destroyers.
One of them, the old Duca degli Abruzzi (Duke of Abruzzi) was refitted and became the first nuclear missile cruiser of Europe.
Since then we always had a Navy up to the task.
Ma cosa stai blaterando, da quando abbiamo avuto una nave a propulsione nucleare.
Ma sei preparatissimo. Complimenti
The need for range for the French FREMM is due to the fact that France is the country with the largest exclusive economic zone in the world (11,691,000 km2), not necessarily to reduce budget. It therefore needs enough range (so less equipment) to pretty much deploy anywhere in the world, which isn't the case for Italy.
I said that france's design has less crew for budget reasons, not the range
@@FrontlineReports23 less crew = less need for provisions = less weight = more range
From 17 to 8: they still had to reduce some costs for budget reasons, no matter the range is 😆
@@Tortuex_ frenchy must only surrender...
@@pdofficial3137 I'm getting sick and tired of this white flag narrative, so here is a bit of history for you.
During WW2, France had to defend the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK and France.
Whilst the Dutch gave up to the invader, the French kept on fighting for the freedom of the Dutch in the battle of Zeeland for 3 more months.
The British were under French command and, without receiving the order and without notifying French command, they decided to retreat to Britain, hence leaving the French and the Belgians to defend the English whilst they were retreating during the battle of Dunkirk.
To quote a german general in Dunkirk : "Despite our overwhelming numerical superiority, the French counter-attacked at several points. I can't understand how these soldiers, sometimes fighting at 1:20 odds, found the strength to attack. It's astonishing. I find in these soldiers the same ardour as in Verdun in 1916. We're not getting anywhere and we're suffering terrifying losses. [Dunkirk proved to me that the French soldier is one of the best in the world. The French artillery, so feared in 14-18, once again demonstrated its formidable effectiveness. Our losses were terrifying: many battalions lost 60% of their strength, sometimes even more!"
General von Küchler, commander of the 18th Army of the Wehrmacht.
France was then invaded and indeed collaborated with the invader, which is a complete stain on our history, but let's not forget the Netherlands is where the most je*s were deported compared to the amount of population.
Little after France got invaded, the French fleet docked to a port in Algeria (former French colony) to keep the ships for liberation. The British navy arrived near the port (that was completely docked at port) and gave the French an ultimatum : either give the Brits the French ships away (because the French ships were technologically superior to the British ships and the Brits wanted them for the defence of their island), or get shot down. The French navy chose the last choice. (it precisely happened in Mers el-Kebir).
So to summarize : France had to defend four countries (including itself), of which two of them gave up / retrieved, only to get almost their entire navy destroyed by an ally who, let's be honest, if it hadn't been for the German bombings on London wouldn't have moved a single toe to help liberate Europe.
I am not diminishing the sacrifices that the English and Dutch have undergone in any ways, it's all politics, but in this story, the French were clearly the bravest.
During the Korean War, the French were fighting in Indochina and Algeria (not saying it was justified, just to give context), so only 3.000 were sent to Korea. It has been reported by US soldiers that, at some point during fighting, the French ran out of ammunition. What they did to stop the enemy's progress is put their bayonets on their rifles and charged in direction of the enemy (c.f., Battle of Wonju).
Out of a total strength of 3,000 men over a period of three years, the French battalion will have lost 263: this represents a loss of around 10%, which is the biggest loss among foreign contingents.
The French UN battalion received two Presidential Commendations (awarded to units of the United States and allied countries for extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy) from the Republic of Korea, three Presidential Commendations from the United States, and was cited five times in the French Army Order.
These are a mere few events of bravery French soldiers have done, and as a final reminder : France as a country has won the most battle of all countries in the world.
The real miracle is Italians and French being able to complete the projects despite the political meddling.
European nations are like brothers. They will fight each other constantly but if someone outside family attacks they will team up and defend each other to death
This is because politics has nothing to do with the two countries. We are dysfunctional cousins.
Really! You never know with those baguettes. 🤣🤣🤣
Italia e francia in realtà hanno buoni rapporti da tanto tempo,entrambe hanno una storia navale secolare e collaborano in numerosi progetti militari e politici. Non confondiamo il calcio con con l'esterno😂, però sono contento perché insieme stanno facendo bene e l'Italia ha indubbiamente la marina più forte nel mediterraneo...
@@S4mU117 si ma senza accento.
France 🇫🇷 🤝🏼 Italy 🇮🇹 & Greece 🇬🇷 in Méditerranée
France 🇫🇷 🤝🏼 UK 🇬🇧 in North Sea and Atlantic Ocean
France 🇫🇷 🤝🏼 US 🇺🇸 in Pacific Ocean
France 🇫🇷 🤝🏼 India 🇮🇳 in Indian Ocean
The US Navy chose Fincantieri as the Italian company has three important production centers: Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Fincantieri Bay Shipbuilding, and Fincantieri ACE Marine.
True. Fincantieri is already implanted in North american continent, which is a big advantage over Naval Group, for this contract. Naval Group is more implanted in other countries or continents, Naval Group is selling well in Asia, which is a rising region.
@@jingorooroad2559 Fincantieri and the Indonesian Ministry of Defense have signed a contract for the supply of two PPA units (multi-purpose offshore patrol vessels), for a value of 1.18 billion euros
@@67claudius I don't know, on a recent news about it, said it was only the intention letter, and that nothing was signed yet about it.
@@jingorooroad2559 Fincantieri and the Indonesian Ministry of Defense signed a contract on 4/28/2024. The 2 ships originally intended for the Italian Navy are currently under construction at the Riva Trigoso shipyard, Italy
@@67claudiusma adesso si costruiranno altri 2 PPA ? Spero full .
It doesn't matter who got more frigates than the other... we're like cousins, EU and NATO members. If one needs full power in combat, the other will come assisting.
that's absolute true, I mean being in the NATO is a great advantage!
I mean...that is true if Europe won't have It's hands full with Russia in the future, if Ukraine wins and Russia is safely contained Europe won't have major threat's and could assist the US otherwise it would be a lot more difficult
@@alexd832 Ukraine isn't a European country member, nor a NATO member. Which is a big difference. If someone will go to far, it's mostly NATO countries around Ukraine.
true
@@jingorooroad2559 To a certain extent, both Ukraine and Russia are European nations, and to the same extent both are not. The Russian soul reached Europe as much as the European soul reached Russia.
Hey everyone, after reading some comment it seems there's a bit of a misunderstanding in ship classification, so some countries don't use the word destroyer, I'm French and i know the german don't too, the whole torpedo boat destroyer thing is "contre torpilleur" in French, literally counter torpedo boat, we are not going to call it a "contre", so we have first rank and second rank frigates, something like a Lafayette FLF class will have "F710" on the hull while a FREMM or Newer FDI will have a "D650" to separate them from the lower tier ships
The Chevalier Paul which in France is classified has a "Frégate de Défense Aérienne (FDA)" is known internationally has Missile Destroyer Chevalier Paul D617
Italy did not received 10 FREMM (not yet) ,as 2 were sold to Egypt before completion. 2 More FREMMs, are now under construction and 2 more have been ordered for a total of 12 ships.
The 2 FREMMs under construction which will replace the ones sold, will be upgraded to the "Plus" variant, a full GP frigate with a complete ASW suite on top.
The next two FREMMs, still in the design phase, will be upgraded to the EVO stage with a similar command bridge and radar suit to that of the PPA (Thaon di Revel class), with a mix of improved Aster 30 and CAMM-ER missiles. The displacement of these ships will increase accordingly despite a larger use of composites in the superstructures.
I never heard of the Bergamini being "faster" then the Aquitaine, having the exact same set up of engines and lenght and both reaching slightly above 26 knots.
3:09 The OTOMAT is NOT "less modern" or "Cheaper" then the Exocet: please check your sources! Teseo Mk2/A actually is a younger and more expensive missile then the French Exocet (MM40 Block 3): it is also notably heavier with almost double the warhead and a longer range. The Teseo Mk2/A is closer to a cruise missile, able to strike sea and land targets while the Exocet is strictly an anti ship weapon. The differences in weight are easily understood as the Exocet was borne as an Air to Sea weapon, while the Otomat is just too heavy for that use and Italy employs the Marte on planes and helicopters.
The reason for the different choice is that the French "Offensive" FREMMs (Alsace and Loraine) are equipped with Sliver 70 PAMM launchers, able to fire SCALP cruise missiles for ground objective targeting, while the Italian frigates do not carry the SCALP and employ the Teseo for all kind of offensive roles. All the other french FREMM are in the ASW set up.
About the Constellation, I think the navy will come to regret the decision to stick with tiny 57mm guns: Italian and French ships are shooting down Houti drones with 76mm cannons which are effective at range, cheap to use and easy to restock, while the USN has to shot them down with AA missiles that costs orders of magnitudes more then the target they are supposed to "Kill": we could say that when an AA missile intercepts a drone, it is the drone that gets the kill! 😑
Just a note: the past tense of the word 'cost' is 'cost.' There is no 'costed.' I see this more and more online. Same with the word cast.
Indeed, this annoyed me a lot even though I am a non-native speaker.
thanks, I was one of the many (apparently) using costed !!!!!
What happens if an accountant asks you "is this project fully costed". Costed in accounting parlance is not the past tense of cost but an adjective.
@@maxharbig1167 Fair point, but the video seems to be merely trying to use the term as a simple past tense. To put it simply: “Cost” relates to the value of things, tangible or not, and it’s worth. It has the same form for present, past and past participle - “Cost”, which is the form you should use more. However, “Costed” can be used in an accounting context, to indicate the estimated cost of something. I should have been more precise in my post.
has a french dude i think that project that we do with italy and also sometimes britain seems to pan out much more compared to colab that include germany for some reason
Well done and informed video.
got the pleasure of getting a tour onboard an aquantine class ship called normandie. very modern and spacious.
I don't know why we keep trying to work on huge projects with the germans. It's much more effective when we work with Italians as they know what they want and are not double sided.
Thank you but the Germans aren't bad
Perhaps France shouldn't try to grab control of the whole project then .
@@alexd832 no they are the worst partner, A400M development was a mess because Germans needs were irrelevant and changes every day, same for eurofighter Germany impose ventral jet inlets
@@durchschnittlicherzuschaue9733 Keep in mind France don't need germany to design anything unlike germany. Also any project with France and any other country is a success but when germany is involved it always messy and inneficient. Germany can't even buy European plane (P-8A Poseidon, F35...)
the Indian Navy could do with a slightly modified, larger variant of the FREMM line of frigates . . . a fleet of 26 brand new Carlo Bergamini class 6,382 ton (8,230 ton loaded) stealth guided missile advanced warfare frigate powered by iFuelCell2® RedOX-HYBRId™ M-FEP system . . . 14 of the 26 units will designed & built by Naval Group at their naval maritime shipyards in Marseille, France . . . remaining 12 units will be assembled in India (under licence) from pre-built modular assembly kits at MDL Maritime Shipyards Goa, India . . . this way the per unit price can be reduced significantly, lot less than €840 Mn . . .
And the US has already modified the hullform and subsequently everything that needs to be attached to the hull.
It is now a bespoke design and correspondingly expensive.
Everyone remember this video when the Internet trolls argue that the USA will never buy a foreign weapons system and deliberately undermine other countries’ military contracts. This is one of many US / ? Collaboration on defense. ( I personally wish the US would team up with UK for the challenger 3)
the US spent far too much for their equipment, I mean the budget is higher as all other military together. Many US weapon manufacturers took profit knowing that the US will never acquire foreign designs, as they chose the FREMM this was a mayor shock, some lobbyist wanted even to block the deal. Now they have to come down with the price. how is it possible that countries like Russia or China with less money and far less capable technology could keep up with the US?
@@Ezekiel903 took too much abusive profits. They never have been independent, they're still buying plenty of European equipments, Safran, Thales, etc ... won many contracts in the last 5 years.
The changes of the original design of the FREMM by the USN are so important that all the blueprints of the Italian ship have been modified. And the funniest thing is that some of those mods make operating the ship on heavy sea "problematic" unlike the original FREMM.
@@qanniqtuq The US should have gone with the UKs Type 26 ASW Frigate
@@RelationalDatabase-us7fr
Yep.
At the very least they should not have modified a single rivet or bolt on the FREMM design.
Well done video, just wanted to point out that at 1:35 you reversed the variants, the ship on the left is ASW, while the one on the right is GP.
If you think that the Arleigh burke classe cost nearly as much as one of the worlds best destroyer, Italian-French Orizzonte classe, they you note how the US miil. ind. complex fooled the US DEF. DEP. with their lobbing! happy they send a signal, that the US army is not more willing to pay this prices!! that's the only reason that countries like Russia or now China could keep up despite spending 5 times less money!
The makers of the FREMM missed a big opportunity with Canada. Canada was choosing a replacement for its current frigates and destroyers (one basic hull design, two variants). A competition was held between British, German, and (I think) Netherlands' designs for the basic design. But the FREMM manufacturers declined to compete in the contest with the FREMM design while the Canadian government was asking for designs. Instead the FREMM team tried to wait until the Canadian decision was already made (for a version of the UK Type 26), and tried to sneak in at the last minute with an off-the-shelf design that would undercut the Type 26 on price, and maybe use political pressure to get the decision changed. However, the sales strategy failed totally, as they were told that they had wanted the business, they should have participated the selection process properly, not tried to do an end-run around it.
The type 26 suits our needs better imo. Tbh if the Americans hadn't stipulated only operational designs in their design brief they probably would have opted for the type 26 as well. Hopefully the program doesn't get cut.
Canada has a navy?
at 0:09 you can see on the background my hometown Taranto
It's not the French FREMM, and USA wants the Italian Variant , because it's better, bigger , carries better missiles , and higher top speed , the cargo space is bigger and it can carey 2 helicopters compared tot the France version that carries 1
Us Navy a aussi acheté une soixantaine de sonar Captar-4 de THALES pour équiper ses navires, le développement du sien a été laborieux et finalement moins efficace, donc ils l'ont abandonné.
Oui et le sonar de Thales étant ce qui se fait de mieux à l'heure actuelle, ils ne prennent aucun risque.
Proud to have worked as a caretaker painter on the construction site of these boats at the Lorient arsenal
The General Purpose and ASW have the opposite for the Cannon, 76mm general purpose and 127 ASW
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Understand these ships were designed to operate in the Med, how would they handle the Atlantic or the Pacific during a Cyclone/Typhoon or the Artic???
France has territory all over the world, the ship wasn't design for the Med sea
@@jean-philippebobin3732 People are coming with weird assumptions sometimes, or lack of logic. France got the world's biggest sea territories and EEZ, and their boats are only good for the Mediterranean sea.
Carriers avoid Tropical revolving storms, there are clips on UA-cam of older French Frigates in some seriously gnarly conditions, remember France has waters bordering the English Channel and the notorious bay of Biscay.
@@jean-philippebobin3732 Well said.
The Arlie Bourke is one hell of a Ship!
Was not sunk by Royal Navy at Mersel Kebir?
@@pdofficial3137 Are you stupid or just a troll?maybe both. Arleigh Burke class is an US frigate
Excelente
Americans have bought the french sonar Captar-4 from THALES because the american research of the equivalent was far from being as efficient. Finally, after having lost millions on the research, they opted for the french sonar, actually the best sonar in the western camp.
I'm sure it's a great vessel, but the timing is peculiar. US announcing their decision to buy from Italy, and Italy canceling their MOU with China's BRI. This looks and smells like an agreement.
cancel BRI happens far later, don't bring such senseless comments!
B@@Ezekiel903 non è stata neanche cancellata,ma non rinnovata dopo 5 anni .
How noisy will the US ASW Frigate be?
Why the FREMM? Easy to say, because the NAVY screwed everything with the Little Crappy Ships' program, it's embarassing that the 1rst world's economy wasn't able to build a decent ship to replace the Perry class.
🇮🇹🇺🇸⚓️ (italian one also looks better) 😂
No
@@Thunderworks oh, you’re french, typically blind, looks better and more armed* 😂
Italy always made beautiful ships TBH.
@@rienneant7607 🙏
IF they are SMART they will DESIGN A NEXT GENERATION MEDIUM SUPERCARRIER… Europe needs AT LEAST 10 to 50,000 tn
Italy and French are in a new project, to replace their horizon classe destroyer, on YT with "DDX Class Destroyer - Italian Navy - Marina Militare" DDX classe, over 12'000 tons, between 64-92 VLS cells etc.
@@Ezekiel903 Actually, the DDX is ONLY italian, France may become a customer in case...
@@jacopomainoldi9025 French navy generaly prefer to own many ship but less arm. Due to our territory it would cost us way too much otherwise. Yet our navy is very recent and under huge modenisation.
with the Trieste they have already a 30'000ton carrier, new build, but Italian like Japan, their carrier can not only carry planes, but also entire landing brigades!
Reminds HI /Electric Boat that they can’t rip off DoNavy forever…
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What's the point of "going with a proven design" and then changing pretty much everything?
Construction methods, materials and many sensor packages are similar.
32.Not going to do it..😮
FREMM USA and the newest FREMM EVO much better than frency Petain class fremm
It is better the Spanish F-110 frigate.
VIVA ETA ESPANA MIERDA
Same name FREMM but different shiphs.
French and Italian can not be compared. No one better than other just different project
no, same project with slightly different designs! like the horizon destroyer, it was a French-Italian project, only some slightly modification were made to fulfill the different request!
italian one is more armed, better sensors and can carry 2 heli instead of 1
@@def_00510well no the french FREMM won the sensors challenge against submarines three times in a row last years (Nato competition)
@@ragnarlothbrok7880 source?
@@def_00510or just search "hook'em award Nato"
The things the US Constellation class only has 15% commonality with its Italian parent design. What was the point of picking an existing design if you are going to change it so much.
it has far more then only 15%, would like to know how you get this number, it would make absolutely no sense, than they could simply buy the basic structure design of license, which would be far cheaper, but alone that Fincantieri bought Marinette and other Shipyards to build it, shows a different picture!
@@Ezekiel903He is right. The USN modified all the blueprints of the original design, so much than the ship seem to have problems on heavy sea.
"The design of the Constellation-class ships is based on the Italian FREMM multi-mission frigate parent design that was modified by ship designer Gibbs & Cox to accommodate Navy survivability and equipment requirements. The Leidos subsidiary, Fincantieri and Naval Sea Systems Command wrestled with Americanizing the FREMM design for two and half years before it hit the 80 percent design completion and could begin fabrication on Constellation in 2022.
The modification of the design altered almost every drawing of the FREMM and required review from NAVSEA, USNI News understands.
“[The Navy] and the shipbuilder agreed that design maturity was probably the single biggest factor we could do to reduce the risk of production,” former program executive officer for unmanned and small combatants Rear Adm. Casey Moton said in August of 2022.
For example, testing at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock found that the modified design did not meet service standards for operating in heavy seas, necessitating design changes that ate into the schedule margin the yard wanted to have for the first-in-class ship.
“We were already into the functional and detail design when that report came from Carderock - something of a surprise because the parent design didn’t really have that,” Vandroff said."
news.usni.org/2024/01/11/first-constellation-frigate-delayed-at-least-a-year-schedule-assessment-ongoing
Perché sento sempre un che di disprezzo (quando dite Italia ?)
Hai un complesso, fatti vedere
@@bluemax0137 maleducato si da del lei se non si conosce la persona con cui si parla (andare voi 👎👎👎
@@bluemax0137 andate
@@bluemax0137 Tu invece sei lento di comprendonio.
@@fabriziovenditti9246 Si, si, ti raggiungiamo. Tu ti trovi bene? Sei li da parecchio tempo, giusto?
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Wrong, the US chose the Italian project, not the French one
It's a french-italian ship, and the US bought it from Fincantieri, an italian company.
I recommend cotton buds for cleaning your ears😂
😂 France/Italy project… that’s why the entire world is joking about US IQ …
lmao that comment makes no sense
Italian project
It's kinda wrong when he said in the video "the Italian FREMM is better armed". Since the French FREMM are actually using better missiles and electronics systems.
The Thales systems already proven to be better and superiors, as it performed better in the deployment in red sea, but also by winning competitions many years in a row.
And they have land-attack cruise missiles Mdcn.
You can look up on the internet , French navy uses better Anti - Ship missiles but more expensive , but the Italian Navy uses Aster 30 missiles compared to Aster 15 used by France as an air tot air missiles , plus Italy FREMM has more auto super fast cannons tha the French one
Wrong the US Navy (NavSea) modified the FREMM to the point only 15% of the design can be attributed tothe FREMM. Including no espresso machines and a 17 pound bofors. 57 mm
It's all about the project, being modular depending of the needs of the customers as Italian and French ones are already pretty different.
All ' italia basta questa .non siamo un guerra con nessuno non dobbiamo assoggettare nessun paese .cone fanno gli usa .😂
it has far more then only 15%, would like to know how you get this number, it would make absolutely no sense, than they could simply buy the basic structure design of license, which would be far cheaper, but alone that Fincantieri bought Marinette and other Shipyards to build it, shows a different picture!
Well, if they removed all the espresso machines, the project is already doomed! 😅
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The Italian coffee machines and french bakery are all that make this project a success.
The French navy has a catobar carrier and will have 2, therefore the frigate mission is different from the Italian one
The French budget cut is a lesson of why austerity is a short sighted profoundly dumb policy. In the end France paid the 8 FREMMs the price of the initial 17 because the economy of scale wasn't there anymore.
Regarding the capacities of the FREMM, France would have had a monstrously powerful navy today, probably far above any european Navy, Russia and Turkey included.
Wrong.
What they're actually designing is an american variant which roughly has the same hull shape.
Which means they redesigning about way more than half the ship.
Hull shape is intricate but fairly basic crap.
The magic is in conduits and cable laying snd compartments.
Which is why they're going to run 3, yes 3! Years late.
No, the Italian FREMM is not better armed than the French one... The electronics systems (Thales) is better on the French frigate, as well as its Exocet missiles. But the strategic advantage she has is the MdCN land-attack cruise missiles, a decisive asset, and the italian FREMM doesn't have any. So, please stop talking nonsense.
The best Frigates are the Royal Navy's Type 26, and the best anti aircraft platforms are the Royal Navy's Type 45 Destroyers.
In your dreams, brexshiter.
Type 26 is not yet operational, Type 45 is a fantastic platform, been plagued by problems and its major weakness is its ammunition capacity as we have seen in red sea operations.
famous English humor
No, and no. But nice try, little Englander.
it is the HMS PRINCE TAMPAX Class?
The french and italian IS the same boat
900 TONS OF DIFFERENCE frenchy use them to go directly to surrender at Berlin
FROMAGE / FROMAGIO...
*formaggio
Camembert / Parmigiano
frenky FREEM have one front gear and six rear gears and 2 big mirrows to see in face enemies 😊😊
Et voici l'abruti de service...
Congratulations to the US Navy, have you purchaseda "MADE IN ITALY" product!
We also dress the DEVIL in PRADA 😂
Only 16 vls for italian version.
That sucks
Frenky FREMM is named VASELINE-CLASS
this time frenky goes directly to Berlin to surrender😂😂
No wonder your name is PDofficial 😆
@@gregoirenoble1564 l am MACRON...
@@pdofficial3137 NO sei solo un pirla
Bcoz it's french... 😁