French Navy counters UAV for the first time thanks to jamming solution
A French FREMM fitted with a new jamming systems succeeded to shoot down a fixed wing UAV in October, Naval News learned from two French Navy flag officers during the Euronaval 2024 exhibition which was held last month.
“We are working a lot on this with the DGA and different industrials. We succeeded to destroy a UAV a few days ago with a brand new system, which we trained with one month ago during Wildfire exercise. This system was good enough to be quickly implemented onboard the ship and this ship departed for a mission with this system. […] We’ve got some very good ships […] but we need to upgrade these frigates with new generation of equipment such as countermeasures, counter-UAV system, new artillery ammunition. We work on how we can improve on the basis of all frigates in order to face new generation of threats.”
– Rear Admiral David Desfougères, Head of French Navy planning and programs.
Naval News was able to confirm that the two systems in questions are Neptune and MAJES DB6 which are designed and produced by French company MC2 technologies. The SME specializes in anti-drone and electronic warfare systems. Neptune is a high power GNSS jammer initially developed to train military forces to operate in A2-AD environment, under navigation warfare threat. MAJES DFB6 is the latest version of a C-UAS jammer initially developed for the PARADE anti-drone solution deployed during the Paris 2024 Olympics. Naval News as also able to obtain pictures showing the systems fitted aboard one of the two Air Defense FREMM ships of the French Navy. The pictures were taken by Toulon area ship spotter Gilbert Gyssel.