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Home» News»Naval Group Awarded Contract To Support French Navy’s Submarines
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Barracuda type SSN Suffren navigating South of Toulon
Barracuda type SSN Suffren navigating South of Toulon. ©Axel Manzano/Marine Nationale/Défense.

Naval Group Awarded Contract To Support French Navy’s Submarines

Naval Group and the Fleet Support Service sign a new contract for the operational maintenance of the French Navy’s nuclear attack submarines.

Martin Manaranche 19 Jul 2021

Naval Group press release

Naval Group and the Fleet Support Service have signed a contract for the operational maintenance of the French Navy’s nuclear attack submarines (SSN) which will be in force for over three years and is worth several hundred million euros This agreement includes the maintenance operations of Rubisand Suffren-class SSNs and all the related services: engineering, maintenance of tools and spares, management of the stock of spares, training platforms and maintenance of nuclear installations necessary for the operational maintenance (MCO) of submarines.

The contract came in force earlyJuly and brings together all the routine maintenance activities essential to the technical availability of nuclear attack submarines.

This agreement will mobilise several Naval Group’s partners for the supply of strategic equipments (TechnicAtome, Thales, Safran), the local industrial fabric and over five hundred Naval Group employees based in several sites in France.

This contract is part of a transitional phase between the gradual withdrawal from active service of Rubis-class SSNs and the arrival of the new generation Suffren-class SSN.The aim is for Naval Group to carry out maintenance operations on these two types of SSN which have different technologies and requirements. The infrastructures of the Toulon naval base are currently undergoing a modernisation phase to adapt to this generational change in submarines.

“I would like to thank the French Navy, which has once again placed its trust in us. Naval Group is committed to working alongside its customer on a daily basis and over the long term to ensure the best possible operational availability of its ships.”

“Service and technical performance are at the core of this contract. Naval Group guarantees to the French Navy a high level of safety and security as well asa strong technical support capacity. Through this contract, the groupis also bound to ensure the availability of critical systems of the vessels.”.

Vincent Martinot-Largarde, Executive Vice-President,Services.

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French Navy Marine Nationale Naval Group Rubis-class SSN Submarine Suffren-class 2021-07-19
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