Barracuda SSN: DCNS opens combat system shore integration facility

Over 100 people, including DCNS employees and representatives of the DGA, the French Navy and partners, attended a ceremony at the Toulon naval base on Wednesday 28 November to inaugurate the combat system shore integration facility for the Suffren, the first nuclear-powered attack submarine of the new Barracuda type.

The combat system is the submarine’s central nervous system. It manages all command and control functions involving all sensors and weapons in real time.

The ceremony marked the transition from the combat system’s design phase to functional integration, or the assembly of its hardware and software components on a shore integration facility (SIF).

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