Paris: OP frigates for the DOM/TOMs
Faced with the question of how to replace the six small Floréal-class frigates, France recently decided in favour of building the Gowind corvettes - and against waiting any longer until the European Patrol Corvette is ready for series production, which is not making sufficient progress as a joint project, especially in light of the findings of the last six months. Better to build something of our own, that has always been the case in Paris! The Floréal class was designed in the 1990s for low-intensity coastal defence tasks in the French overseas territories, but has been used more and more intensively and now requires more assertiveness as a military platform above and below...
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