Naval Group launches HS Nearchos, second FDI frigate for the Hellenic Navy

Naval Team news release

The ritualistic establishing happened in the visibility of Nikolaos Dendias, Priest of National Support of the Hellenic Republic, and General Gaël Diaz de Tuesta, Supervisor of the International Instructions of the French General Weaponry Directorate (standing for Sébastien Lecornu, the French Priest of the Army). General Dimitrios Choupis, Principal of the Hellenic National Support General Personnel (or HNDGS), Vice Admiral Dimitrios E. Kataras, Principal of Hellenic Navy General Personnel (or HNGS) along with the General Supervisor of GDDIA, Major General Ioannis Bouras were additionally going to the event.

The HS Nearchos frigate signed up with on the Scorff river her sistership HS Kimon, which is presently undertaking harbor tests prior to beginning on her initial sea tests. HS Nearchos will certainly obtain its Panoramic Sensors and Intelligence Module (PSIM) a couple of weeks after its establishing. The 3 Hellenic Frigates are currently at a sophisticated phase of manufacturing, as the 3rd device, HS Formion, whose keel laying of its initial block happened in April, has actually finished its hull setting up this August. Among her blocks, area 8, was produced by Salamis Shipyards in Greece. The 3 frigates will certainly be supplied in 2025 and 2026.

This occasion is once more a chance to highlight the success of the strong, lasting commercial teamwork in between France and Greece, which is identified particularly by the combination of various Greek makers right into Naval Team’s supply chain. Therefore, HS Nearchos, along with the various other FDI frigates, integrates numerous tools “made in Greece”.

An ingenious, effective and electronic frigate

The FDI for the Hellenic Navy is a 4,500-tonne battleship. Multi-purpose and resistant, she will certainly allow the Hellenic Navy to guarantee its maritime prevalence in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea many thanks to her top-level capacities in all locations of marine fight: anti-air, anti-submarine, anti-ship, and unique pressures forecast, with one-of-a-kind capacities versus crooked risks. She additionally takes advantage of the current Thales technologies in radar, finder and digital war.

Highly armed (MBDA Exocet MM40 B3C anti-surface and Aster anti-missile projectiles, RAM systems, MU90 anti-submarine torpedoes, weapons), HS Nearchos begins all at once a helicopter and a capability of airborne automobile (UAV).

She additionally takes advantage of the proficiency of Thales, MBDA, and all our various other companions and subcontractors.

Technical specs:

• Variation: 4,500 loads
• Size: approx. 122 meters
• Size: 18 meters
• Optimum rate: 27 knots
• Aeronautics centers: 10-ton course helicopter, VTOL unmanned airborne automobile (UAV)

Key weaponries:

• 32 Aster projectiles created by MBDA
• 8 Exocet MM40 B3C projectiles created by MBDA
• RAM projectiles
• MU 90 torpedoes created by Naval Team
• 76 mm weapon
• 4 torpedo tubes
• CANTO counter determines created by Naval Team

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