The French Defense Procurement (DGA) has rapidly developed the low-cost SMOKERS kamikaze USV, moving from concept to sea trials in just six months.
Reconciling multi-year defense programs with agile, rapid-cycle developments to keep pace with accelerating technology is a primary challenge for the DGA. Its objective is to deliver “sufficiently mature” products to French sailors quickly.
The SMOKERS family of loitering munitions, an acronym for “Scalable Maritime Operational Kamikaze System, Developed under Sovereign Control”, exemplifies this effort. Transitioning from initial concept to a product mature enough for recent French Navy exercises took just six months. This initiative draws directly from operational lessons learned in Ukraine and the Arabian Gulf.
A model of the product will be presented at the upcoming Euronaval exhibition on the FrenchMinistry of Defense (MoD)' booth.
The rest of my last article on Naval News, with Xavier Vavasseur.
Pictures by Hervé Dermoune
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