FREMM Programme: Thales to Equip 4 Italian Frigates

(March 27, 2008) -- Thales has received an order to supply, integrate and install four additional sonar suites under the Franco-Italian FREMM multimission frigate programme.

Three anti-submarine warfare frigates will be equipped with Type 4110 hull-mounted sonars, and Type 4249 active very low-frequency towed arrays for long-range surveillance missions.

A fourth frigate designated for general sea-based operations will be fitted with a Type 4110 hull-mounted sonar.

With the latest order from Italy, the FREMM programme now includes fourteen frigates. France ordered eight and Italy six.

The FREMM ASW configuration provides one of the most capable surface ship ASW systems to be installed on a surface combatant. This has been achieved by leveraging the low frequency active variable depth sonar (LFA-VDS) concept and technologies successfully developed by Thales for the UK Sonar 2087 and integrating it with the sea proven hull mounted sonar from the Franco/Italian Horizon destroyers.

Source : Thales

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