First Dutch Navy Mine Countermeasure Vessel Starts Sea Trials

Dutch Navy’s first mine countermeasure vessel begins sea trials

The Royal Netherlands Navy’s first mine countermeasures (MCM) vessel, Vlissingen, has embarked on its maiden sea trials from Concarneau, France.The post Dutch Navy’s first mine countermeasure vessel begins sea trials appeared first on Naval Technology.

In France, in the waters off Concarneau, the sea tests of the future Zr.Ms. Vlissingen have begun, the first of the new Mine Countermeasures Vessels (MCMV) under construction for the Koninklijke Marine (Royal Netherlands Navy). The MCMVs are part of a program managed by the Netherlands and Belgium for the renewal of the lines of mine countermeasure units based on tripartite minesweepers in service with their respective Royal Marines since the ei…

First Dutch Navy Mine Countermeasure Vessel Starts Sea Trials

The Vlissingen, the second of the series of mine countermeasures vessels (MCM) of the Belgian-Dutch rMCM program, first intended for the Royal Netherlands Navy, has commenced sea trials.The specialized and cyber secured by design MCM vessels…