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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.
The French Navy does not use the term "destroyer". While officially classed as "frigates", the larger major surface combatants of the first rank are nevertheless registered as destroyers (with hull numbers "Dxxx"; though, as of 2023, French Navy vessels are incrementally having hull numbers removed from display on all ships).
Beskytteren-ocean patrol frigate OPV. (classed as ocean patrol frigates). Later sold to Estonia and renamed EML Admiral Pitka; Peder Skram class - 2 ships; Thetis-class ocean patrol frigate- - 4 ships; Absalon-class flexible support ship - 2 ships. (Arguably a support ship, armed as a frigate) Iver Huitfeldt class - 3 ships
This category includes the WWII class of ships known as Destroyer escorts, a class later subsumed into the frigate class. In cases where the class consisted only of a unique ship, see instead the Category:Unique frigates.