The modern Greek military

Scalp Naval As for the Greek project FREMM


Vue de la FREMM proposée à la Grèce View of the FREMM proposed to Greece
crédits : DCNS Credits: DCNS

Artical traslanted from French to english


15/04/2008


The french government has given its consent to the sale of cruise missiles Scalp Naval to Greece, if it opts for the FREMM as part of the renewal of its fleet of frigates. The president of DCNS was in Athens as part of the opening of a permanent office of the group in the Greek capital.DCNS has also signed a new agreement with Elefsis site, which will carry out the buildings if Athens is the choice of French frigate. This new agreement, which follows the one signed at the end of 2006, sets out the arrangements for the industry organization between french and Greek groups to carry out the program, estimated at several billion euros. "Our desire is to establish a viable Greece to participate in the renewal of frigates of the Hellenic Navy and development programme FREMM. It is a global partnership in the long term and high technological value to the industry Greek, creator of a large number of skilled jobs, "says Jean-Marie Poimboeuf.
The project covers not only the construction of buildings locally, with a significant transfer of technology, but also the integration of Greece to the European FREMM programme, to which Italy is already involved. . "We incorporate equipment Greek both the French frigates as those we sell in the export market." Climatisation, informatique, électronique... Air conditioning, computers, electronic. While it is too early, according to the boss of DCNS, to say what kinds of equipment could be shipped, he said that within the framework of tenders for the realization of frigates, Greek companies may propose solutions and business opportunities.
Tried priority by the Greek authorities, the renewal of frigates is budgeted for the five-year capital of the country. The French seem for the time being and the well-placed Naval Scalp is a new argument. Developed by MBDA, the first European cruise missile is a weapon very important because few countries have. Taken from the frigate, the missile can reach a target land over 1000 km. So it is a "big plus" for the French offer, in competition with projects including the TKMS German, the Spanish and Dutch Navantia Schelde.
We will return tomorrow, more detail on this project, regarded as "strategic" by DCNS.

http://www.meretmarine.com/article.cfm?id=107450

For the Greeks sake I hope someone briefed him otherwise. Having fighters from different sources just destroys your whole logistic plan.