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Naval Group is a major French industrial group specializing in naval defense design, development and construction.Its headquarters are located in Paris.. Heir to the French naval dockyards initiated in 1631 by Cardinal Richelieu and to the Direction des Constructions et Armes Navales (DCAN), which became Direction des Constructions Navales (DCN) in 1991 and then DCNS in 2007, the company was ...
A French naval task group, designated Task Force 473, led by Charles de Gaulle departed Toulon on 30 October 2010 for a four-month deployment, code-named Operation Agapanthus 2010, to the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Persian Gulf.
Designed by Naval Group, the first 7 ships were ordered in 2023 from Piriou Shipyard, Constructions Mécaniques de Normandie, and Socarenam. Construction of this batch began in 2024 and all 7 are estimated to be in delivered by 2030. The remaining 3 ships are planned to be ordered as part of a later budget and are planned to enter service by 2035.
In September 2017, after difficult negotiations and a brief nationalization of the shipyard by the French government, the involved parties reached an agreement, with Fincantieri acquiring a 50% stake in STX France, and the remainder being held by the French Naval Group and the French government. A month later, it was announced that the Saint ...
In October 1998, the Delegation Générale pour l'Armement, the French government's defense procurement agency, established an integrated project team consisting of the Naval Staff, DCN (now known as Naval Group), Technicatome and the Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique, a regulatory body that oversees nuclear power plants, to oversee a program the design of a new attack submarine class ...
The organisation is a merger of 4 predecessors – COFRAS (established in 1972), NAFVCO (1980 now Naval Group), AIRCO (1984) and DESCO (1990). The four companies were once part of four branches of the French army (Land, Navy, Air and Special Forces, respectively) before unification in 2000.
In July 2019, Naval Group won a €1.2 billion contract, which included the construction of four new Gowind multi-mission corvettes for the Romanian Navy. Naval Group was due to build the first corvette within three years while the remaining three corvettes were to be constructed by Constanța Shipyard and delivered before 2026. [52]
The Force d'action navale (FAN, Naval Action Force) is the 9,600-man and about 100-ship force of surface warships of the French Navy. As of August 2023, it is commanded by Admiral Nicolas Vaujour. The ships are divided into seven categories: The aeronaval group, which has the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle at its core