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Patrol & mine warfare vesselsSince November 2025
Mine countermeasures vessel
City-class mine countermeasures vessel is a mine countermeasures vessel. It was built by Designer: Naval Group Builders: Piriou Concarneau (France) Kership Lorient (France) Shipyard ATG Giurgiu (Romania). Reported operators include Belgian Navy Royal Netherlands Navy.
France; BelgiumCity-class mine countermeasures vessel
Defensie Nederlands · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source ↗ · ModifiedCity class (Belgium) Vlissingen class (Netherlands)
Designer: Naval Group Builders: Piriou Concarneau (France) Kership Lorient (France) Shipyard ATG Giurgiu (Romania)
Belgian Navy Royal Netherlands Navy
Tripartite class Alkmaar class
€166.67 million per unit
Since November 2021
Since November 2025
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Mine countermeasures vessel
2,800 t (2,800 long tons ) full load
82.6 m (271 ft 0 in)
17 m (55 ft 9 in)
3.80 m (12 ft 6 in)
32 MW (43,000 hp)
CODLAD : 1 × ABC 12VDZC diesel generator 2 × ABC 6DZC diesel generators 2 × MEP electric motors (1,800 kW each) Propellers : 2 × Wärtsila axles with fixed pitch screws 2 × Wärtsila transverse bow thrusters 1 × Wärtsila transverse stern thruster
15.3 knots (28.3 km/h; 17.6 mph)
33 to 63
Systems Combat system: Naval Group Polaris system Drone management system and data analysis: UMISOFT suite Naval Group Multi-Drone Mission System (MDMS) Containerized Command and Control Centre with the Mine Warfare System (MWS) Sonars : Bow sonar: iXblue FLS 60 Towed sonar:ECA T18-M Autonomous drone with sonar for mine detection: ECA A18-M AUV (equipped with Exail UMISAS 120 sonar) Radars : Naval surveillance radar: Terma Scanter 6000 Target tracking radar: Thales NS50 AESA Electro-optical sensors : 2 × Sea Eagle FCEO stabilised cameras (HD and infrared) with laser rangefinder , (by Chess Dynamics) Communications : Saab TactiCall ICS communication suite Navigation : iXblue inertial navigation system Underwater drones : ECA Seascan MK2 (identifying mine) ECA K-STER C (disabling mines)' Patria Sonac ACS - Acoustic Minesweeping Systems drone Electronics for the drones by ST Engineering iDirect Belgium, a subcontractor of Exail
Guns : 1 × BAE Bofors 40 Mk4 2 × FN Herstal Sea deFNder (with FN M3R machine guns ) 4 × FN MAG ( general-purpose machine guns on board) Non-lethal weapons : 2 × water cannon 2 × Long-range acoustic device (LRAD)
2 × UMS Skeldar V-200 unmanned aerial vehicles
Surface boats : 2 × 7 m SOLAS Viking RHIB 1 × ECA Inspector 125 unmanned vessel which deploys the drones equipped with an Exail FLS-5 sonar ) Others : Exail influence dragger with five integrated CTM magnetic modules 1 × overhead crane 1 × stern crane
City class 2 France Belgium MCM "Mine Countermeasures Vessel" Piriou Concarneau (hull) Naval Group ECA Group Oostende M940 3 Nov 2025 2,800 tonnes Successor of the Tripartite class in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Navy announced in March 2019.
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Sourced dimensions beside a 1.75 m human reference.
Points represent sourced observations, including revisions. Revisions on the same effective date are not separate inventory events. Ranges appear in the table and are not plotted as exact points.
| Observation / report period | Value | Source | Claim state |
|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Sept 2026 | 82.6 m | Wikipedia contributors | superseded |
City-class mine countermeasures vessel equipment records. Variants, orders and quantities are shown as reported in each inventory source; coverage is incomplete.
BelgiumReported count for City class. Service scope: Belgian Navy; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct quantity component(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Explicit source inventory scope: active; no other stock status or total inferred. Count column(s): in service: 2. Origin: France Belgium. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
Reported count for City class. Service scope: Belgian Navy; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct count cell(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Excludes retired/reserve/on-order rows. Count column(s): in service: 2. Origin: France Belgium. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.
NetherlandsReported count for Vlissingen class " City class". Service scope: Royal Netherlands Navy; does not replace a national total. 1 distinct quantity component(s) from the same source list; shared rowspan cells counted once. Explicit source inventory scope: ordered; no other stock status or total inferred. Count column(s): on order: 6. Origin: France. The listed variants/roles are the scope, not an immediately deployable count. The components do not establish one inventory census date; the stored date is the retrieved source snapshot.