French Navy tests unmanned beach assault, expands drone tactics

French Navy tests unmanned beach assault, expands drone tactics

In the exercise called Dragoon Fury, the French Navy used its amphibious helicopter carrier Tonnerre as a drone platform.

French Navy Atlantic ATL2 carries out surveillance mission south of Sardinia

This morning, a French Navy Breguet Atlantic ATL2 (registration “9”) conducted a surveillance mission over the central Mediterranean, south of Sardinia. The aircraft, with callsign FNY56KS, took off from NAS Lann-Bihoué (Lorient), in Brittany, and headed directly to the central Tyrrhenian Sea, where it operated between 07:00 and 09:00 CEST. Although the precise nature of the mission remains undisclosed, the ATL2 is a long-range maritime patrol a…

In France Naval Group has announced that the frigata FDI HS Kimon, destined to the Hellenic Navy, has begun the first tests at sea in Lorient last 21 May, following the experience of the ship Amiral Ronarcíh of the National Marine, the first FDI realized. The tests at sea, supervised by the representatives of the Hellenic Navy, will be carried out in two phases in order to test the systems of propulsion, navigation, combat and resistance at sea.…