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The Kimon class, also known as the FDI HN, is a frigate class for the Hellenic Navy. The FDI HN is a more heavily armed version of the French frigates . The lead ship is expected to be commissioned in early 2025.
The Frégate de Défense et d'Intervention (English: Defence and Intervention Frigate) or FDI, [4] formerly denominated Frégate de Taille Intermédiaire (English: Medium-Size Frigate) or FTI, is a programme launched in 2015 to produce a new class of first-rank French frigates to complement the Aquitaine-class.
FDI class (Kimon class) Frégate de défense et d'intervention: HS Kimon HS Nearchos HS Phormion: F601 F602 F603 F604/600 Κίμων Νέαρχος Φορμίων Θεμιστοκλής Naval Group (4) 4 on order. [4] [5] Commissioning of the first ship will happen in early 2025 [6] with parts of the ships built in the Salamis shipyards in Greece.
Finally, in September 2021 the decision for the future of the HN frigate fleet was announced, including gradual replacement of the Elli class with the French-built Belharra Hellenique (Frégate de défense et d'intervention - FDI)-class warships, officially constituting the Navy’s new Kimon class, and modernisation of the Hydra class in a € ...
Greek destroyer Kimon (D218), the former Charles F. Adams-class destroyer USS Semmes (DDG-18); launched, 1961; acquired by the Hellenic Navy, 1991; decommissioned, June 2004; scrapped, 2006; Greek frigate Kimon, a Belharra-class frigate under construction since 2021, projected to be commissioned in 2025.
Elli-class frigates/Kortenaer-class frigates Bouboulina (F463) (ex-HNLMS Pieter Florisz Commissioned on 14 December 2001, decommissioned on 18 February 2013; Knox-class frigates Leased to Greece from the USN after the Gulf War. Ipiros (F456) (1992–2003) – The ex-USS Connole was in Greek service until 2003, named after the region of Epirus [6]
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Naval ensign of France. This is a list of active French Navy ships. [1] [2] [3] The French Navy consists of nearly 100 vessels of the Force d'action navale (Naval action force) [4] and the 9 submarines of the Forces sous-marines (Submarine force).