Saturday, September 07, 2013

French shipyard CMN confirms major order by Mozambique including 6 Patrol Vessels & Interceptors

Ocean Eagle 40CMN confirms the signing of a major export contract with Mozambique. The contract signed September 5th, 2013 is historic for CMN both in terms of number of ships and the variety of vessels.

The contract includes the delivery of three OCEAN EAGLE 43 trimaran patrol vessels, three HSI 32 interceptors and eighteen fishing vessels for a total of twenty-four ships. The implementation of this agreement will generate a two years work load.

Both type of military vessels are innovative concepts developped by CMN R&D department in 2013.

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4 comments:

  1. The Navy's Grade 36 Bureaucrat9/9/13 00:12

    Looks better than our LCS.

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  2. Ko Savonije9/9/13 08:47

    Which LCS?
    Lockheed Martin (1) or General Dynamics (2)?

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  3. The Navy's Grade 36 Bureaucrat10/9/13 04:23

    Both. LCS should be a fast, inshore, cheap frigate, but instead suffered requirements creep and now is big-but-not-big-enough. It can't fight in combat, and it's too expensive to compete economically with low intensity conflict.

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  4. Ko Savonije10/9/13 15:24

    This is what you get, wanting to do brown water ops everywhere.But to get there you'll need to cross blue water.

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