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Video: French Navy’s New POM OPV for the Indo-Pacific
Naval News takes you aboard the French Navy’s first POM (Patrouilleur d’Outre-Mer) Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV), the “Auguste Benebig”.
11 February 2023
Naval News takes you aboard the French Navy’s first POM (Patrouilleur d’Outre-Mer) Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV), the “Auguste Benebig”.
The contract for the Peregrine system will see a rotary-powered UAS, fitted with powerful
naval surveillance sensors suite, deployed to help protect a Type 23 frigate on operational
tasking.
The Type 32 Frigate remains a future UK Royal Navy platform requirement, but timeframes and capabilities are to be confirmed.
The U.S. military began collecting the remnants of a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon shot down by an Air Force fighter over the weekend.
The US Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Marinette (LCS 25) from Lockheed Martin last week at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin.
The German Navy received its 18th and final NH-90 “Sea Lion” helicopter dedicated to utility and SAR missions.
MBDA has been awarded a US Navy contract to start production of CAMM missiles for the Royal Saudi Navy’s Multi-Mission Surface Combatants (MMSC) ships.
Royal Navy’s Type 23-class frigate HMS Somerset announced the commencement of the Naval Strike Missile upgrade works on January 30, 2022.
French shipbuilder Naval Group announced that the “Jacques Chevallier” started its sea trials campaign on 25 January.
A specialist ship bought to support Royal Navy mine-hunting operations – a mother ship to launch drones to find and destroy undersea threats – has arrived in Plymouth.
