French Navy boosts frigate availability to 80% via dual-crewing and maintenance reforms

The French Navy reports raising first-rank frigate/destroyer availability to ~80% by expanding dual-crewing on FREMM frigates and improving shore-based in-service maintenance processes. The novelty is an operational/doctrinal approach to generate more sea days and effective fleet output without building additional hulls, including rapid 3-day crew handovers in forward areas.