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Test Success for DCNS and Partners: FREMM Frigate Aquitaine Launches First Torpedo

(Source: DCNS; issued June 29, 2012)

 

LORIENT, France --- Teams from DCNS, the French Navy and defence procurement agency DGA recently completed a new test campaign aboard first-of-class FREMM multimission frigate Aquitaine, the last and most important being the first ever torpedo launch test from a FREMM frigate.

 

And a pic from Aviation Week's Ares blog:

 

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CV32: Reference in there to a total of 19 torpedoes carried.

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