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552:(POM-type) patrol vessels were ordered as replacements for the P400s as well as for other French coast guard vessels. These were to be delivered between 2022 and 2025 to protect the exclusive economic zone of French overseas territories in the Indian Ocean and the Pacific. In May 2021, it was reported that the delivery of the first of these vessels would be delayed, from an originally planned in-service date of 2022, until 2023.
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719:"Secret Défense: Les avisos vont être transformés en patrouilleurs"
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586:La Boudeuse
506:arrived in
473:Capricieuse
463:(After the
369:French Navy
363:were small
192:Patrol ship
86:(1986-2023)
1435:Categories
1298:Triomphant
1080:La Fayette
914:Naval News
867:1 November
702:References
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669:La Réunion
590:La Réunion
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