Italian photographer Giorgio Arra provided Naval News with pictures showing the future landing craft of the French Navy (Marine Nationale) being tested with Mistral-class LHD Tonnerre.

Following delays due to the COVID-19 crisis, CNIM and its partner Socarenam are about to launch the builder trials phase for the French Navy’s EDA-S landing craft program...

The next generation of landing craft for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) known as EDA-S are taking shape at Socarenam shipyard in St Malo (Brittany) with CNIM acting as the main contractor.

French equipment manufacturer CNIM is right on track and on time to deliver a new generation of landing craft to the French Navy (Marine Nationale), having cut steel of the first EDA-S in October this year.

CNIM will deliver fourteen new landing craft (LCU type, designated EDA-S for "engins de débarquement amphibie standards" in French) to replace the the ageing "CTM" (previous generation of LCUs) in the French Navy (Marine Nationale).