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Home» News»French Navy eyes new training system for its VBSS teams
A French Navy VBSS team training aboard the La Fayette frigate (Credit: François Bogaert/French Navy)

French Navy eyes new training system for its VBSS teams

The French Navy’s VBSS (Visit, Board, Seach and Seizure) teams will soon be able to improve their skills ashore with a new training module the French Armed Forces Ministry plans to build next year at the Toulon naval base (south of France), according to an RFP issued on Tuesday.

Nathan Gain 07 Nov 2019

Within the French Navy, the sailors who make up the VBSS teams are all volunteers (from the ships’s crew) and from all ranks. The VBSS teams perform visits of vessels at sea to enforce the maritime and international laws. 

It is therefore required to be regularly deployed to carry out investigations, or even to seize illegal ships. Up to now, these teams were regularly training at sea, using the services by private contractor SeaOwl.

A CGI of the training area the French Navy is considering for its VBSS teams
(Credit: French Ministry of Armed Forces)

The future training system will adopt a « commercial ship » layout. It will be made of 16 20-ft standard ISO containers simulating 3 ship levels. While the external look will be rather basic, the interior of the training module will be closer to what VBSS teams are likely to encounter in a commercial vessel, such as lights, metal doors and windows. 

The construction work should start in early June 2020, and will last 4 months. The structure will be installed on the Malbousquet hill, in the western part of the Toulon naval base. 

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Posted by : Nathan Gain
Nathan is based in Namur, Belgium. He holds an MA in modern history with a minor in international relations from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL – Belgium). Fascinated by military history he naturally turned to the defense sector after graduating and is particularly interested in Northern European and Belgian defense issues as well as in anything related to naval aviation.

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