2000年10月31日,在巴黎举行的“欧洲海军2000”(Euronaval 2000)展览会上,法国和意大利宣布,两国海军将订购新一代的“地平线”(Horizon)级防空型护卫舰。两国海军已拨款28亿欧元(约合23亿美元),用于建造首批4艘“地平线”级护卫舰。该项目的承包商是法国的 DCN 造船厂、汤姆逊-CSF 公司与意大利的芬坎蒂尼造船厂、泛安科那公司组成的一个公司集团。法、意两国海军发表的声明指出,两国海军及采办机构应用相同的工程规范和公共合同,订购完全可互操作的防空型护卫舰在历史 On October 31, 2000 at the Euronaval 2000 show in Paris, France and Italy announced that the two navies will order a new generation of Horizon-class air defense corvettes. The two navies have allocated 2.8 billion euros (about 2.3 billion U.S. dollars) for the construction of the first four “Horizon” class frigates. The contractor for the project is a group of companies formed by the French DCN shipyard, the Thomson-CSF company, the Fincontine Shipyard in Italy and Pan-Ancona. French and Italian navies issued a statement that the navies and acquisition agencies of both countries apply the same engineering norms and public contracts to order fully interoperable air defense corvettes in the history