Naval Group Begins Production of Sweden's First FDI Frigate Just One Month After Contract Signing
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In Lorient, Naval Group started to build the first pieces of the future Swedish frigate, a few weeks after the contract was signed. With this success, the French group is now aiming for a new market in Europe: Denmark.
In the face of the Russian threat, the IDF (defense and intervention frigates), compact, multi-missions and equipped with anti-drones capabilities are finding more and more buyers in Europe with Greek and Swedish contracts. Member of NATO since 2024 and keen to strengthen air and naval defence in the Baltic and North Atlantic, Stockholm ordered four for 4.3 billion euros at the end of August with a first delivery planned in 2030, a very short de…
Naval Group Begins Production of Sweden's First FDI Frigate Just One Month After Contract Signing
Naval Group begins production on the Royal Swedish Navy’s first FDI frigate, the FDI Luleå, in Lorient just one month after the contract was signed. Naval Group press release On 1st October 2026, the steel-cutting ceremony of the first Royal Swedish Navy Defence and Intervention Frigate, FDI Luleå, took place in the Naval Group shipyard ...
In record time, and just a month after the signing of the contract for the Luleå Program, the Naval Group started the construction of the first of the four new frigates of Defense and Intervention (FDI) destined to equip the Swedish Navy. The first unit, baptized Luleå, is already in production [...] The Naval Group entrance started in record time the construction of the first IDF frigate for the Swedish Navy aparece primero en Zona Militar.
Between the announcement of the choice of the Frégate de défense et d'intervention [FDI or the Ronarcoh class] by the Swedish Ministry of Defence and the beginning of the construction of the first of the four units ordered, just five months have passed. In the field of weapons programmes, such a short delay is rather rare for the... This article A month after the signing of the contract, Naval Group launches the construction of the Swedish friga…
The contract was signed on 31 August 2026 and the first frigate is expected to be delivered in 2030
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