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1 month ago | 
navalnews.com | Martin Manaranche |Xavier Vavasseur |Martin has worked
In a recent press conference held at the French ministry of Armed Forces, Rear Admiral Cédric Chetaille – the French Navy’s deputy chief for operations, and director of seabed capability development – revealed that France’s seabed warfare strategy includes offensive means, in addition to defense ones. By Martin Manaranche and Xavier VavasseurFor the first time the Admiral confirmed that this strategy also has an offensive component, notably in the “actions” section of the strategy.
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Feb 8, 2025 | 
sportscardigest.com | Martin Raffauf |Martin has worked |IMSA Classics
The 2025 Daytona 24 hours event took place from Jan 17- 27 at the famed Daytona International speedway. Once again as in recent years there was the Combined “ROAR” (testing sessions) the weekend prior followed by the race on January 24,25. The ROAR is a mandatory session for those running the 24 hours. IMSA uses it to gather data for any potential BOP (Balance of Performance) changes.
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Jan 29, 2025 | 
navalnews.com | Martin Manaranche |Martin has worked |Lee Willett |Aaron-Matthew Lariosa
The announcement confirms the addition of VSHORAD SAM on the future OPVs and the production of a new ammunition for the RAPIDFire naval gun system.
French Armed Forces press release – Translated by Naval NewsWorth a total of around 600 million euros, these orders are part of the 2024-2030 Military Programming Law (LPM) which plans to strengthen and modernize forces’ capabilities in these strategic areas.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
navalnews.com | Martin Manaranche |Martin has worked |Lee Willett
First reported by the AFP (Agence France presse) and then confirmed today by the French minister of armed forces, a French MPA patrolling over the Baltic Sea in international waters was locked on by the fire control radar of a Russian S400 air defense system and also jammed. The MPA was on a NATO mission.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
navalnews.com | Martin Manaranche |Martin has worked |Xavier Vavasseur
The La Perouse exercise is led by France and centered around the French CSG (also called TF 473) – currently on deployment for the Clemenceau 25 mission – brings together nine countries including Canada, the United States, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Australia, the United Kingdom and Singapore. This force gathers 13 ships and about 130 aircrafts of all types (helicopters, MPAs, fighter jets).
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
navalnews.com | Martin Manaranche |Martin has worked
SIMA Peru and Korea’s STX carried out the christening and launching ceremony for two new patrol boats: B.A.P. “Río Huarmey” and B.A.P. “Río Nepeña”. Both units are part of the Investment Project called ‘Recovery of the capacity to perform surface coast guard operations in the national maritime domain and search and rescue operations’.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
navalnews.com | Martin Manaranche |Martin has worked |Xavier Vavasseur
The French replenishment tanker BRF Jacques Chevallier is part of the French carrier strike group (CSG) which is currently deployed for the Clemenceau 25 mission in the Indo-Pacific. While sailing in the Indian Ocean and taking advantage of the presence of the MSC-chartered Stena Polaris, the French vessel conducted a CONSOL operation with the latter, a first for the French Navy.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
navalnews.com | Martin Manaranche |Martin has worked |Xavier Vavasseur
As planned in the 2024 – 2030 military planning law (Loi de programmation Militaire – LPM), the defense budget has been increased to 50.5 billion Euros for 2025. The defense budget report was released and tell us more about the French Navy can expect for 2025 and beyond. The core of this article was written before the latest events that happened in the French politics during November and December 2024, what follows is thus subject to a lot of uncertainty and is put back in question.
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Dec 6, 2024 | 
navalnews.com | Martin Manaranche |Martin has worked |Xavier Vavasseur
A French FREMM fitted with a new jamming systems succeeded to shoot down a fixed wing UAV in October, Naval News learned from two French Navy flag officers during the Euronaval 2024 exhibition which was held last month. “We are working a lot on this with the DGA and different industrials. We succeeded to destroy a UAV a few days ago with a brand new system, which we trained with one month ago during Wildfire exercise.
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Nov 21, 2024 | 
navalnews.com | Martin Manaranche |Martin has worked
The two projects, Greyshark and Quadroin, were inspired by the natural aerodynamic ability of penguins, which the founder of Evo Logics discovered when studying. He decided to recreate the shapes of these penguins to create capable, multi-tasking AUVs.Evo Logics specializes in underwater robotics and underwater sensors and manufactured the first Quadroin AUV for commercial applications such as seabed mapping, and hydrographic and oceanographic data collection.
