Egypt: Update on Italian FREMM-class frigates

24 March 2021

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Summary

Italian defense company Fincantieri shared its 2020 budget last week (16/3/21), which explicitly

confirmed for the first time the sale of two FREMM-class frigates to the Egyptian Naval Force (ENF).

This information had been released last December, following the widely documented delivery of a FREMM frigate to the Port of Alexandria.

However, there is talk that for reasons of sensitive material and matters of national security, Italy actually removed from the frigates a number of electronic countermeasure (ECM) systems.

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