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French Navy’s 2021 Report on Global Maritime Security
The MICA Center of the French Navy released its 2021 annual report on maritime piracy and robbery acts that impacted worldwide maritime security.
7 January 2022
The MICA Center of the French Navy released its 2021 annual report on maritime piracy and robbery acts that impacted worldwide maritime security.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) conducted an in-theatre crew exchange for the Aquitaine-class FREMM Frigate “Bretagne” earlier this month. The crew swap (B crew relieving A crew) took place in Reykjavik, Iceland, on 7 December 2021.
The keel-laying of the “Jacques Chevallier”, the first of four new logistic support ships (LSS) known as “BRF” for the French Navy (Marine Nationale) took place at the Chantiers de l’Atlantique shipyard in St Nazaire.
Northrop Grumman won a $354 million U.S. Navy contract to start production on three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft for the French Navy (Marine Nationale).
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) FREMM Frigates FS Provence and FS Languedoc won the U.S. Navy’s “Hook’em” award. This is the third time (and the second year in a row) that the U.S. 6th Fleet awards the price to French units for their ability to find and track submarines.
The U.S. Navy and the French Navy (Marine Nationale) inked a Strategic Interoperability Framework (SIF) on 17 December 2021. The agreement paves the way for increased cooperation between the two navies for the next twenty years, especially their ability to “plug and fight” side by side.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) FREMM Frigate “Auvergne” conducted a series of exercises with the Hellenic Navy frigate “Salamis” off Crete, the French MoD said on December 14.
On November 25, 2021, the French armament procurement agency (DGA) took delivery of the first SLAMF (Système de lutte anti-mines futur) Future Mine Warfare System prototype…
FSAF-PAAMS program direction managed with its stakeholders the hardware validation of the redesigned radar cabinet of SAAM-FR system that ensure air defense to the French Navy’s Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, the Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation (OCCAR) said on November 30.
The French armament procurement agency (DGA) took delivery of the ‘Arbalette’ and ‘Arquebuse’, the first two new generation landing craft known as EDA-S. They were ordered in 2019 from CNIM for the French Navy and Army.
