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2021-03-01

Naval Group Brings Innovation to the Forefront

Naval Group recently participated at IDEX and NAVDEX 2021 and showcased its solutions that respond to the operational needs of navies. The company has a long history of cooperation with the different navies of the region and has trustful relationships for the last 30 years.

For instance, Naval Group is present in Saudi Arabia through a subsidiary which carries out services contracts for the Navy. Another subsidiary has been opened in 2018 in Egypt to carry out the in-service support of the fleet which includes two MISTRAL-class Landing Helicopter Docks, one FREMM frigate and four Gowind corvettes.

“Naval Group has been established in the UAE since 2010. We are proud to be working together with our partners to develop sustainable, long-term relations and projects that contribute to national sovereignty and generate lasting benefits in the country. Our group’s long-term commitment in the country is illustrated by the recent decision to set up a new office in Abu Dhabi,” said Alain Guillou, Senior Executive Vice President Development, Naval Group.

Through transfer of knowledge and joint research, Naval Group aims to work with its Emirati partners to create highly qualified opportunity for Emirati nationals and progressively achieve country self-reliance and autonomy.

To achieve this, an initiative has been launched in partnership with Tawazun Economic Council consisting of a virtual internship programme known as Sustain & Enhance Emiratization in Defense & Security (SEEDS). This programme enables young UAE nationals to pursue virtual internships at Naval Group while being tutored by one of the company’s experts, regardless of the travel restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to contribute to the development of the skills of young Emirati students to enable them to support the country’s defence needs in the years to come.

For instance, Naval Group is attentive to the needs of the Emirati Navy in terms of training and is available to develop solutions adapted to their needs. The company’s presence in the UAE also enables the development of innovative technologies that could potentially serve the operational needs of the Navy and Coast Guards. These products can also be directed towards export markets and the economic benefit will positively impact the national and regional markets.

State-of-the-art Technologies

Building on its 400-year long experience in supporting the French Navy, Naval Group is the partner of choice for many international navies. Naval Group showcased the state-of-art innovations created for modern navies at their booth at IDEX, demonstrating its capabilities as leading naval integrator through high tech naval solutions.

The innovations highlighted included Belh@rra, the combat and crisis management frigate that empowers modern navies and adapts to the digitisation of the warfare. Ensuring naval authority, this compact all-digital frigate performs all the operations conducted by large surface vessels with increased precision and high-level capabilities in anti-air, anti-surface, anti-submarine and asymmetric warfare domains.

On the other hand, the Gowind is a corvette equipped with a set of anti-submarine, anti-surface and anti-aircraft systems to NATO standards. The corvette is a concentrate of the latest technological advances developed and mastered by Naval Group. It integrates the latest generation of combat systems developed by Naval Group, SETIS, the Panoramic Sensors and Intelligence Module (PSIM) – a combination of the integrated mast with its various sensors and the Operational Centre and associated technical premises, and the high level of integration, automation and user-friendliness of the Naval Group systems.

Naval Group also demonstrated how SETIS provides intelligent and innovative solutions to improve comfort, safety, accuracy and efficiency of operations management.

Naval Group is also recognised for its drone expertise. The company integrates all types of UAVs, air, surface and underwater, to increase the operational capabilities of an armed fleet. This technological advance represents a new potential for intelligence, surveillance and exploratory missions and become force multipliers provided that they are fully integrated in the ship.

The innovative solutions for the implementation and recollection of UAVs under any sea conditions and those dedicated to the management of drone missions and the integration in real time of the data collected directly benefits naval forces.

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