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French CSG Retasked with NATO Support Role
The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its strike group are being retasked to support NATO following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces…
26 February 2022
The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its strike group are being retasked to support NATO following the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces…
Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence just reported that two commercial vessels were hit by Russian fire off the port of Odessa in Southern Ukraine…
On February 22, 2022, Naval Group started the first sea trials of the FREMM DA Lorraine, an important step before the frigate’s delivery. For several days, the eighth FREMM to be delivered to the French Navy and second with enhanced air defence capabilities (FREMM DA), will undergo sea trials off the coast of Brittany.
Rafael have completed a successful series of live-fire tests of the ‘C-Dome’ system – an advanced naval configuration of the Iron Dome defense system.
Sevmash Shipyard is planning to complete the delivery of the Kirov-class nuclear powered cruiser (project 11442M) Admiral Nakhimov to the Russian Northern Fleet in 2022.
The head of the French DGA, his British DE&S counterpart and the CEO of MBDA signed a bilateral agreement and contracts for the continued preparatory work for the Future Cruise and Anti-Ship Weapon (FC/ASW) Programme. The kick-off meeting was held on 17th february 2022.
A new “Seabed Warfare Strategy” was unveiled by French Minister of Armed Forces, Florence Parly and Joint Chief of Staff, General Thierry Burkhard on 14 February.
The first H160 helicopter for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) has started its flight tests at the Airbus Helicopters main site in Southern France.
A U.S. Navy team christened the first Snakehead Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV) prototype Feb. 2 at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility in Newport, RI.
The U.S. Navy’s Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) this week issued a Request for Information (RFI) for a Variable Depth Sonar (VDS) System for the future Constellation-class frigate.
