List of French current frigates
This is a list of frigates in service with the French Navy as of 2020:
First rank Frigates
The French Navy does not use the term "destroyer"; thus, some large ships of the first rank (like Horizon) are designated "frigates", though they are registered as destroyers (with hull numbers "Dxxx").
- Horizon class - 2 ships
- D620 Forbin
- D621 Chevalier Paul
- Cassard class - 1 ship
- D615 Jean Bart
- Georges Leygues class (F70 type) - 2 ships
- D645 La Motte Picquet
- D646 Latouche-Tréville
Stealth frigate Surcouf and Courbet
- Aquitaine class - 6 ships
- D650 Aquitaine
- D652 Provence
- D653 Languedoc
- D654 Auvergne
- D656 Bretagne
- D651 Normandie
- La Fayette class - 5 ships
- F710 La Fayette
- F711 Surcouf
- F712 Courbet
- F713 Aconit
- F714 Guépratte
(3 La Fayette class (La Fayette, Courbet and Aconit) to be upgraded to incorporate hull-mounted sonar as well as modernization of other systems).
Second rank frigates
- Floréal class - 6 ships
- F730 Floréal
- F731 Prairial
- F732 Nivôse
- F733 Ventôse
- F734 Vendémiaire
- F735 Germinal
See also
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