French Navy vessels based in Brest lately participated in the initial Wildfire counter drone workout in the Atlantic. A comparable workout happened in 2014 in the Mediterranean to educate Toulon-based vessels and seafarers.
French Navy news release
Organized by the training department of the surface area strike pressure, Wildfire is an innovative tactical training intended to prepare French Navy systems based in Brest to the battle versus unmanned surface area and airborne lorries– hazards they can deal with throughout their following functional implementations.
For this initial stage, the Navy released the adhering to systems:
On April 29th:
- Multi-mission frigate ‘Bretagne’
- Multi-mission frigate ‘Auvergne’
- Offshore patrol vessel ‘Enseigne de vaisseau Jacoubet’.
On Might sixth:
- Offshore Patrol Vessel ‘Enseigne de vaisseau Jacoubet’
- NH90 helicopter ‘Caiman Marine’
The ships dealt with attacks and flocks of unmanned lorries released by the French Purchase Company (DGA). Understanding neither the circumstance neither the hazards, the ships needed to get in touch with the seafarers’ functional imagination, know-how and tactical reasoning.
This sort of workout enables us to check our companies’ capability to deal with uneven hazards in as reasonable context as feasible. Making use of various strategies and a variety of anti-drone devices allowed us to profit from responses that will certainly be utilized by the Naval Activity Pressure Facility of Proficiency (CENTEX FOLLOWER).
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Naval Information remarks:
This is the 2nd version of the Wildfire– a persisting workout occurring two times a year devoted to respond to UxVs danger. The initial one happened in September 2024. Naval Information reported concerning a few of the brand-new services (jammers from MC2 technologies and SeaOwl’s target USVs) utilized throughout this workout while covering Euronaval 2024.
In a video clip concerning the workout launched by the French Navy on social media sites, the ships utilized numerous sorts of ammo– from 20mm weapons to 76mm primary weapon– to respond to the USVs and UAVs. The video clip reveals additionally a NH90 helicopter with its placed 7.62 mm gatling gun obliterating a UAV while in trip, recreating an occasion that occurred in the Red Sea when a AS565 Panther helicopter from the FREMM Alsace effectively intercepted a Houthi UAV in 2024.
#Wildfire|La Marine s’ entraîne à lutter contre les drones!
— Marine nationale (@MarineNationale) May 15, 2025
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