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Here’s a mouthful:  behold the quite newly commissioned “French FREMM multi-mission frigate, Aquitaine.”

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The blue shed along her starboard side gives away the location . . .  that’s Red Hook .  .  . south end of  Brooklyn Bridge park.

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Here’s the sum of the parts, at sunrise this morning.  For a CGI walk through, click here.

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Here’s a frontal view of the stealth frigate.  For more info, click here.    DCNS was the builder.

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All fotos by Will Van Dorp.

Here’s a stealthy French warship that visited three years ago . . . and here are some fotos that include mine of the  previously most recent French naval contingent  in the sixth boro.

 

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