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Airbus Helicopters Delivered the 16th NH90 NFH Maritime Helicopter to the French Navy.
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Navy NH90 NFH Caiman take off from the deck of Aquitaine FREMM Frigate. Picture: A.Monot©Marine Nationale |
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The French Navy took delivery of its first NH90 in
May 2010. At first it fulfilled maritime search and rescue and maritime
counter-terrorism missions. In February 2013, it achieved the anti-submarine
warfare (ASW) capability and was used for the protection of the carrier
strike group (CSG) or for the French SSBNs.
Since March 2015, it has the capacity to hunt and engage submarines autonomously. The French Navy currently uses all the capabilities of the NH90 NFH complex weapon system embodying an acoustic suite, a sonar, an ESM sensor, a Chaff and Flare system, an Electro Optic suite, a multimode naval radar, as well as a new generation MU90 Torpedo. Currently three NH90 NFH Caiman are deployed. Two are part of the Charles de Gaulle CSG (on board the Horizon class air-defence destroyer Chevalier Paul and FREMM Frigate Aquitaine). The third NH90 is aboard FREMM Provence which just completed an ASW excercise with a Royal Malaysian Navy Scorpene class SSK. |
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