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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

DCNS opens a subsidiary in Australia to better market its SMX OCEAN SSK for the RAN


French naval defense group DCNS opened today a subsidiary in Australia named "DCNS Australia".

The move, which coincides with an official visit to Australia by French president François Hollande with Thales and DCNS CEOs alongside, is aimed at getting closer to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) and ultimately better marketing the SMX OCEAN submarine when the opportunity arises.

SMX Ocean SSK:
SMX Ocean is a new heavy conventional submarine (SSK) which was unveiled by DCNS at Euronaval 2014. It is based on the Barracuda SSN currently under construction. Xavier Mesnet (Submarines Marketing Director at DCNS) told Navy Recognition: "SMX OCEAN is more than a concept ship, it is a concept ship near to be realized".

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