09-Jul-21 - French General Directorate of Armaments (DGA) validates a new capability of the French Navy NH90 NFH Caiman marine helicopter to allow automatic opening parachute jumps for special forces #parachute
08-Feb-19 - French Navy’ NH90 operated aboard USS Donald Cook (DDG-75, Arleigh Burke-class destroyer) in the Mediterranean Sea during exercise FANAL 2019 with the Charles De Gaulle aircraft carrier strike group #MilitaryTraining
21-Sep-15 - The French Navy took delivery of its 15th (of 27 ordered) NH90 NFH “Caiman Marine” helicopter. As of today, 249 NH90 of all variants have been delivered to 13 countries
13-Mar-15 - French Navy NH90 Caiman helicopter achieved Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) missions with the MU90 Torpedo
21-Dec-12 - Eurocopter today achieved a new milestone in its NH90 program with two ceremonies held at its Marignane facility near Marseille in the south of France, during which the manufacturer delivered Belgium’s first NH90 Tactical Transport Helicopter (TTH) in the presence of the Belgian Defense Minister Pieter de Crem; along with the French DGA defense procurement agency’s first NH90 NATO Frigate Helicopter (NFH), in its naval Step B version, to be used by the French Navy.
08-Mar-12 - Having successfully conducted deck landing in January to qualify the FREMM Aquitaine flight deck for a Lynx five-tonne class helicopter, DCNS, the French Navy and the DGA organised the first deck landings of a Caiman Marine ten-tonne class helicopter on board the same frigate. As in the previous trials with the Lynx, French Navy pilots appreciated the absence of turbulence above the flight deck in all landing positions.
16-Dec-11 - At 2am on Friday December 16th 2011, the cargo ship TK Bremen ran aground 2km south of the mouth of the Etel river on the Brittany coast of France.
