DCNS conducted three demonstration operations for POLARIS® and NIDL®
on 28 May in Douala (Cameroon), 10 June in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) and
22 June in Dakar (Senegal). The simulation of a sea-rescue and offender
interception scenario under real conditions required the deployment
of the POLARIS® mission system in a land-based centre as well as
on board L’Adroit, an OPV built by DCNS on its own funds and loaned,
free of charge, to the French navy. The representatives of the Cameroonian,
Ivory Coast and Senegalese Navies each provided their support to the
real-time deployment of data-transmission capacities between the land-based
operations centre and the OPV deployed at sea. |
Xavier
Mesnet, Marketing and Development Director at DCNS, stated: “Working
together with the French Navy, DCNS participates in numerous support
operations to strengthen the maritime security system and Government
action at sea. Faced with an increase in criminal (piracy, drugs trafficking)
and illicit (illegal fishing, illegal immigration, pollution) activities,
the Group is developing open-architecture and modular maritime surveillance
and intervention solutions to provide a response to the sovereignty
needs of States, including within the context of coalition operations.”
POLARIS® is an on-board mission system covering all surveillance
needs for the aero-maritime space by making use of a wide variety of
sensors and the automatic detection and analysis of suspicious behaviours.
DCNS integrates the NIDL® tactical data link module within this
naval system, allowing States, including non-NATO members, to take advantage
of an interoperable intelligence-gathering system, facilitating the
exchange of files and data concerning tactical situations.
From 24 to 26 June 2015, at the Brest maritime prefecture in France,
DCNS also participated in an inter-governmental seminar dedicated to
cooperation in the area of maritime security and safety in the presence
of sixteen chiefs of staff from the Navies of Gulf of Guinea neighbouring
states and four European states, on the invitation of the Chief of Staff
of the French Navy.
Through the Corymbe mission implemented since 1990 by the French Navy
in the Gulf of Guinea, DCNS ships have been demonstrating the interoperability
of their systems in the area of the fight against piracy, in support
of the States of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)
and West African States (ECOWAS).
For maritime surveillance and intervention, DCNS offers a complete range
of 40 to 90-metre ships and associated systems, in collaboration with
its subsidiary Kership, from offshore patrol vessels (OPV) to multipurpose
vessels (MPV). |
In the frame of the OPV L’Adroit’s stopovers conducted by
the French Navy in Cameroon,
S-100 and L'Adroit OPV. Picture: French Navy