巴黎 —— 法国政府正启动一项与国防工业的新“契约”，旨在培育一个国家级的无人机制造商生态系统，能够快速制造符合其海军需求的新装备。
PARIS — The French government is kicking off a new “pact” with the defense industry aimed at fostering a national ecosystem of drone makers that can quickly make new equipment tailored to its navy’s requirements.
武装部队部长凯瑟琳·沃特兰于11月3日宣布了这一倡议，当天是欧洲海军防务展（Euronaval）开幕首日，她将其描述为一种“汇聚”武装部队需求的新机制。
Minister of the Armed Forces Catherine Vautrin announced the initiative on Nov. 3, the first day of the Euronaval defense trade show, describing it as a novel mechanism for “converging” the needs of the armed forces.
该计划类似于法国官员在竞相部署新型空中无人机时所采取的做法，这项技术已成为现代战斗中如此核心的固定要素，以至于世界各国军队都在重组以纳入无人平台。
The plan is akin to what French officials have been doing in the race to field new aerial drones, a technology that has become a fixture so central to modern combat that militaries worldwide are reorganizing to incorporate unmanned platforms.
法国国防部在一份声明中强调了一些可能从新的政府-行业框架中受益的海军无人机技术领域。例如，无人平台将在清除海底水雷、收集水文和海洋数据以及在极深深度探测海底方面发挥作用。
In a statement, the French defense ministry highlighted some of the technology areas that could benefit from the new government-industry framework aimed at naval drones. For example, unmanned platforms will play a role in removing sea mines, collecting hydrographic and oceanographic data and exploring the ocean floor at great depths.
正如法文原文所言，“掌握”海底多年来一直是该国海军技术战略中的固定要素。全球大部分海底地貌对各国政府而言仍是盲区，正如安装在那里的关键基础设施 —— 数据电缆和管道 —— 已成为极端水下领域破坏活动乃至彻底战争的目标。
“Mastering” the seabed, as the original French wording goes, has been a fixture in the country’s naval-technology strategy for some years. The makeup of much of the seabed worldwide remains a blind spot for governments, just as critical infrastructure installed there — data cables and pipelines — has become a target for sabotage and outright warfare in the extreme underwater domain.
为此，法国防务官员在防务展上宣布的与海军无人机框架相关的议程项目之一，是从LD Travocean公司采购第二架ROV Deep Sea深海无人潜航器，重3600公斤，可下潜至6000米。第一架ROV于2024年订购，上周完成了其预定深度的定型试验。
To that end, one agenda item announced at the trade show by French defense officials related to the naval drone framework is the purchase of a second ROV Deep Sea drone from LD Travocean, which, weighing 3,600 kilograms, can dive to 6,000 meters. The first ROV, ordered in 2024, completed qualification trials for its intended depth last week.
相关宣布还包括计划从Exail公司采购八架A18反水雷机器人，这是一种多传感器水下无人机，用于在最终清除前发现和识别海底水雷。
Related announcements include the planned acquisition of eight A18 countermine robots from Exail, a multi-sensor underwater drone for finding and characterizing sea mines before their eventual removal.
法国海军还将从海军集团购买第二艘无人作战水下航行器——这艘“稍长”于首艘测试航行器，长度超过10米，重量超过1万公斤，一位国防部发言人对《防务新闻》表示。这架大型无人机旨在一次在水下停留数周。
The French Navy will also buy a second unmanned combat underwater vehicle from Naval Group — this one a “bit longer” than the first test vehicle, coming in at over 10 meters in length and weighing in at more than 10,000 kilograms, a ministry spokesman told Defense News. The massive drone is meant to stay in the water for weeks at a time.
国防官员还在此与海军集团和欧洲导弹集团签署了一项协议，为法国的FDI型护卫舰装备更多“飞鱼”拦截导弹。这包括将现有护卫舰的船载发射能力从16枚导弹改装为32枚，并确保新建护卫舰自带32单元发射筒弹药库。
Defense officials also signed a deal with Naval Group and MBDA here to equip France’s FDI frigates with more Aster interceptor missiles. That entails retrofitting the onboard firing capability from 16 missiles to 32 on existing frigates, and ensuring new ones are built with the 32-launch-cell magazine baked in.