These 12 ARAVIS® will be equipped with Nexter remotely controlled 20mm turret ARX20 and RPG protections PG-Guard, but also with Nexter Robotics reconnaissance UGV NERVA®LG. These vehicles will join a battalion which will be deployed in Central African Republic within the MINUSCA under the United Nations authority
Meanwhile, in the presence of both Defense Ministers, Pascal Piriou, Chairman and CEO of PIRIOU, signed a contract to supply two offshore patrol vessels to the Gabonese Navy.
PIRIOU is to deliver in mid-2015, through subsidiary PIRIOU NAVAL SERVICES, a modern 54m patrol vessel of the P400 class.
PIRIOU is to deliver in mid-2016 a 58m offshore patrol vessel (OPV50) from the KERSHIP range, the latter being the principal contractor and CHANTIERS PIRIOU undertaking construction.
The contract also includes initial crew training, supplied by DCI/NAVFCO.
Pascal Piriou: “This, our first export success in the field of State Action at Sea demonstrates the relevancy of our dual strategy: firstly our alliance with DCNS, in the form of KERSHIP, to provide vessel construction, and secondly our capacity to supply global solutions by providing complementary ship repair and other services through PIRIOU NAVAL SERVICES.
In December 2013 PIRIOU NAVAL SERVICES (PNS), a subsidiary of the PIRIOU Group specializing in ship repair and based in Concarneau (France), acquired from the French Navy a 54-metre patrol vessel of the P400 class, the Tapageuse.
Subsequently, PNS began the comprehensive modernization of the patrol ship “on stock” with a view to offering her up for sale to a national military navy looking for a readily-available and economical solution.
The patrol ship will be delivered to the Gabonese Navy in mid-2015 and given a new name.
