The frigate Guépattre in Agénor

(B2) Part of Toulon during the month of February, the FLF Guepratte officially joined Operation AGENOR on February 26.

Succeeding the anti-aircraft frigate Jean-Bart, the frigate passed the Strait of Hormuz for the first time in its deployment on March 2 to join the naval base of the French Forces in the United Arab Emirates (FFEAU) the next day. A few days earlier, in the Gulf of Aden, she had sailed together with the Greek frigate Hydra, temporarily deployed in associated support of the operation.

Within the framework of AGENOR, the Guepratte therefore joins an Atlantique 2 of the 23F flotilla, deployed at the air base in the United Arab Emirates since the end of January. Over the past week, the French maritime patrol aircraft has completed four seven-hour operational flights in the Arabian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman.

On Thursday, February 25, Operation AGÉNOR, the military component of theEuropean-led Awareness in the Strait of Hormuz (EMASOH), celebrated its first year of existence. Since the beginning of the operation, seven European frigates and several Atlantic 2 detachments have succeeded one another. In one year, more than 100 operational flights, 400 days at sea and a hundred crossings of the Strait of Hormuz have been carried out for the benefit of the European operation currently commanded by the Danish commodore Carsten Fjord Larsen.

(NGV)