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Video: Exail’s new MCM drones factory in Ostend, Belgium
This state-of-the-art facility is dedicated to the production and support of Mine Warfare drones.
2 December 2024
This state-of-the-art facility is dedicated to the production and support of Mine Warfare drones.
Belgium Naval & Robotics – a consortium formed by Naval Group and Exail – expects to perform operational qualification of the drone ‘toolbox’ for the new Belgian-Netherlands (BE/NL) replacement Mine Countermeasures (rMCM) programme during the first half of 2025, Naval News has learned.
The rMCM program calls for the replacement of the mine warfare capability in both Belgium and the Netherlands. Six vessels are currently being built for
The Oostende, the first of the series of mine countermeasures vessels in the Belgian-Dutch rMCM programme began its first sea trials campaign…
The launching ceremony of the Tournai, 3rd of the 12 MCM in the Belgian-Dutch rMCM programme, intended for the Belgian Navy, took place on 2 July 2024.
In the frame of the European Defence FUND (EDF), Naval Group Belgium will lead the E=MCM project for a period of three years.
The Belgian and Dutch Navies rMCM program is facing delays, the Belgian Ministry of Defense announced last week.Â
Naval Group ceremonially launched the first mine countermeasure mothership for the Royal Netherlands Navy: HNLMS Vlissingen.
On 29 March 2023, the first of the twelve MCM vessels of the Belgian-Dutch rMCM program, was floated out by Naval Group in Concarneau.
The first mine countermeasure (MCM) mothership for the Belgian Navy, “Oostende” (M940), is now fully assembled in Concarneau, Brittany.
