The STAR Plan: New Capabilities in Sight for the Belgian Navy
Belgium is about to increase its defense budget significantly...
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Belgium Mulls Sending Mine Hunter to the Black Sea
Belgium is considering deploying one of its Tripartite-class minehunters to the Black Sea, the Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder said on Wednesday.
LARS for Future Belgian and Dutch MCM Motherships Successfully Tested
A demonstration of the deployment and recovery operation of the fully remotely operated USV took place in the presence of the Belgian and Dutch navies as part of the rMCM program.
Video: Naval Group Lays Keel of 1st MCM Mothership for Belgium
On 30 November 2021, French shipbuilder Naval Group laid the keel for the first of the twelve Oostende-class mine countermeasure vessels...
Netherlands Issues RFI for Future Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigates’ Sonar
The Defence Materiel Organisation (Defensie Materieel Organisatie - DMO) of the Netherlands Ministry of Defence issued a request for information (RFI) on August 18, 2021 about a sonar for the future frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
First Steel Cutting Ceremony For Dutch-Belgian MCM program
A steel cutting ceremony for the Belgian Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy mine countermeasure vessel (MCM) program was held at Crist Shipyard in Gdynia (Poland), on July 19. The first steel sheet was cut for the Belgian Navy's first-in-class MCM vessel.
Belgian Navy’s Leopold I frigate joined Operation AGENOR
Belgian Navy frigate Leopold I this week joined Operation AGENOR, the military part of the EMASOH (European-led Maritime Awareness in the Strait of Hormuz).
ECA’s Group Mine Warfare Drone Factory Breaks Ground in Belgium
In 2019, the Belgian Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy decided to award the supply of ...
Video: Admiral de Beurme on Belgian Navy MCM and Frigate programs
Interview with Admiral Jan de Beurme, the Commander of the Marine Component (Belgian Navy) about two ongoing programs: The replacement of the mine counter measure (MCM) vessels and systems and the anti-submarine warfare frigate (ASWF).
Belgian-Dutch rMCM toolboxes detailed for the first time
Belgian Minister of Defence Ludivine Dedonder last week detailed for the first time the toolbox ordered for the Belgian-Dutch rMCM program.