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The Belgian-Dutch minehunter replacement programme carried out by Belgium Naval & Robotics successfully reaches the milestone “Preliminary Design Review”
On 18 December 2020, the Belgium Naval & Robotics teams reached a new contract milestone, the programme is still on track. This programme will supply the Belgian and Dutch navies with twelve minehunters equipped with unmanned systems (toolboxes). “Achieving the Preliminary Design Review confirms that the overall design meets all the client’s contractual requirements. Nearly […]
BELGIUM NAVAL & ROBOTICS selects BALIÑO (EMENASA GROUP) to provide complete shaft lines and new propellers for the Belgian-Dutch rMCM Programme
Naval Group and Kership, a joint venture between Piriou and Naval Group, in charge of the construction of 12 Mine Countermeasure Vessels for the Belgian and the Royal Netherlands Navy have selected the Baliño proposals and designs to supply the new lines of tail shafts and main propellers. The new rMCM vessels will be provided […]

Naval Group and Kership select ABC and FN Herstal as key suppliers for the Belgium and Netherlands mine counter measures program
ABC and FN Herstal have been selected as strategic suppliers for the mine counter measures vessels built by Kership Shipyard for Naval Group to the benefit of the Belgian and Royal Netherlands Navies. Two strategic Belgian companies, ABC and FN Herstal, have been selected to provide equipment for the twelve mine counter measures vessels […]

ECA GROUP and iXblue strengthen their partnership and sign a contract for navigation, underwater positioning systems and obstacle avoidance sonars for Mine CounterMeasures replacement program for the Belgian and Royal Netherlands Navies
As part of the program to replace the naval Mine Counter Measures capability of the Belgian and Dutch navies, which includes the supply of twelve minehunters equipped with drones (Toolbox), ECA GROUP has signed an agreement with iXblue for the supply of Forward Looking Sonars (FLS), as well as inertial navigation and subsea positioning and […]

ECA Group reaches another milestone with regard to the unmanned vehicles that will be manufactured in Belgium for the mine warfare programme of the Belgian Navy and the Royal Netherlands Navy
ECA Robotics, a French subsidiary of ECA Group, has recently signed a contract worth several hundred million euros. This contract comprises the outsourcing to its Belgian subsidiary ECA Robotics Belgium of the manufacturing and delivery of unmanned vehicles dedicated to the underwater mine counter measures as part of the renewal of the mine countermeasures capacity. […]

Naval Group and Kership select Brusselle Carral as supplier of deck equipment for the Belgian and Dutch Mine hunting vessels
Brusselle Carral, a Belgian company based in Zeebruges, has been selected on July 28th 2020 as supplier of deck equipment for the mine hunters built by Kership for Belgium Naval & Robotics (Naval Group / ECA Group consortium) for the Belgian and Dutch Navies. Brusselle Carral is based in Zeebruges, Flanders and its activities […]

ECA Group selects the UAV SKELDAR V-200 within the Belgium Naval & Robotics mine countermeasures drones system for the Belgian and Royal Netherlands Navies
ECA Group awarded UMS SKELDAR a procurement contract to supply the UAV SKELDAR V-200 as part of the naval mine countermeasures capability replacement, a programme led by Belgium Naval & Robotics – a consortium including Naval Group and ECA Group – which will supply twelve mine hunters equipped with drone systems (Toolbox) to the Belgian […]

The Belgian-Dutch mine hunter program carried by Belgium Naval & Robotics successfully crosses the «Systems Functional Review» milestone
On May 23, a new contractual milestone was crossed by the Belgium Naval & Robotics teams. Exactly one year after the notification of the contract in 2019, this program, which provides for the supply of twelve mine hunters equipped with drone systems (Toolbox) to the Belgian and Dutch navies, reaches a new milestone. In the […]

World First: Naval Group successfully completes testing of its Launch and Recovery System up to and including NATO sea state 5/6 at the Maritime Research Institute Netherlands
Naval Group achieved 100% successful recoveries of ECA Group’s Inspector 125 up to and including sea state 5/6 using its Launch and Recovery system (LARS) in MARIN test facilities (Wageningen – The Netherlands). In Naval Group’s Dutch partner MARIN facilities, Belgian and Dutch officials witnessed the 100% successful launching and recovery of USVs using Naval […]

NAVAL GROUP AND ECA GROUP TO PRESENT STAND-OFF MINES COUNTER MEASURES SOLUTION AT PACIFIC 2019
During PACIFIC 2019, Naval Group and ECA Group will showcase their joint solution for stand-off Mines Counter Measures (MCM) selected by Belgium and the Netherlands. Members of the media are invited to a dedicated presentation on Thursday 10th at 10:30am on the Naval Group booth. The solution developed by Naval Group and ECA Group is […]