Aquitaine is a frigate in service with the French Navy.
She is the lead ship of her class of French frigates, which in turn were developed by the FREMM multipurpose frigate program.
[3] Aquitaine was developed as part of a joint Franco-Italian program known as FREMM, which was implemented to develop a new class of frigates for use by various European navies.
Construction on the ship began in 2007 and was completed in 2012.
[3][4] In April 2018 Aquitaine participated in the April 2018 missile strikes against Syria.