Egypt receives warship from France

France has delivered the first of four Gowind 2500-class corvettes to Egypt in a ceremony at the Lorient port in Brittany, according to the Middle East Monitor. The ship specializes in hunting and destroying submarines and is part of a wider fleet which includes three ships being built in Alexandria with French support. Defense World also carried the story about the delivery of the corvette, which has a range of 3,700 nautical miles at 15 knots and carries a crew of 80.