The decision was motivated by the meeting between Argentine President Mauricio Macri and French President Emmanuel Macron at the annual World Economic Forum summit in Davos, Switzerland.

[5] In November 2018, Argentina confirmed the purchase of four Gowind-class vessels.

The purchase includes the already-built L'Adroit, which in 2016 visited the region on a marketing trip, and three new vessels.

[6] Piedrabuena was laid down in 2019 and launched on 1 October 2020 by DCNS in Lorient.

[8] In May 2024, Piedrabuena, in conjunction with her sister ships Bartolomé Cordero and Almirante Storni, the destroyers La Argentina and Sarandí, as well as the corvettes Espora and Rosales, was tasked to participate in joint exercises with the US Navy's George Washington carrier task group.