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Naval Group is France's state-backed naval-defense shipbuilder and systems integrator, producing and supporting submarines, surface combatants, naval equipment, combat systems, underwater weapons, drones, and fleet services for France and export customers.
11 weaponsNaval Group is the modern company identity behind a long French naval-industrial lineage. The group describes itself as present across the whole vessel life cycle: designing, producing, equipping, integrating, supporting, upgrading, and eventually helping deconstruct submarines and surface ships. Its official history links the company to the French naval dockyards and arsenals that developed through the 17th century and later became DCN, DCNS, and Naval Group.
For this catalog, the profile groups French naval systems where public records identify Naval Group as builder, prime contractor, or major industrial integrator. Those connected entries include the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, Rubis and Le Triomphant submarines, Suffren/Barracuda nuclear attack submarines, FREMM Aquitaine-class frigates, Horizon-class frigates, Mistral-class landing helicopter docks, the Amiral Ronarc'h-class FDI frigate, and legacy naval-gun equipment.
Naval Group delivered the first FDI frigate, Amiral Ronarc'h, to the French Navy in October 2025 and describes FDI as the successor to the French FREMM with anti-air, anti-submarine, anti-surface, and asymmetric-threat capabilities.
Sources: FDI delivery
Naval Group says OCCAR entrusted it with industrial production of the FREMM program for France in 2005, with units including Aquitaine, Provence, Languedoc, Auvergne, Bretagne, Normandie, Alsace, and Lorraine.
Sources: FREMM Alsace delivery
The Barracuda line is the catalog's modern Naval Group nuclear attack submarine connection, replacing the Rubis-class SSNs in French service and continuing deliveries through the decade.
Sources: Annual Report 2025
The carrier sits in the catalog as part of Naval Group's French naval-platform lineage; Naval Group's official history highlights its inherited role in major French fleet programs and nuclear-vessel expertise.
Sources: Naval Group History, Annual Report 2025Naval Group traces its heritage to the French naval policy created under Cardinal Richelieu and the state dockyards and arsenals that later formed the base of France's naval shipbuilding capability.
Sources: Naval Group History
Naval Group's history page identifies the 2003 transition into a public limited company as the creation of the international naval-defense player that later became Naval Group.
Sources: Naval Group History
The current Naval Group identity follows the 2017 rebrand from DCNS, aligning the legacy French naval industrial group with its export and systems-integration business.
Sources: Annual Report 2025
Naval Group delivered Amiral Ronarc'h, the first defence and intervention frigate, and reported additional FDI hulls for France and Greece under construction at Lorient.
Sources: FDI delivery
This profile covers the current Naval Group manufacturer facet. Some catalog entries may use legacy labels such as DCN, DCNS, or DCN International where the weapon record's own sources use those names; those records should remain fact-specific rather than being silently rewritten here.
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Standalone missiles, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, and guided or unguided explosive payloads.
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Warships, submarines, unmanned surface vessels, naval craft, and maritime combat systems.
