Naval Group re-releases this incredible futuristic submarine imagined on the Cherbourg site

The SMX31 was all the rage during his presentationin 2018 at the Euronaval show in Paris.

Her clean shapeher revolutionary design and its disruptive design had not gone unnoticed.

However, the Naval Group concept ship, like most of its predecessors, seemed to be put on the shelf, waiting to be a possible source of inspiration in terms of innovation.

The prototype finally made headlines again a few weeks ago at the DSA & NASTEC Asia show, which was held in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), according to the Opex360.com website.

It is in its evolving form presented in 2020 that it was taken out of the boxes.

Imagined by the design office from the Cherbourg site (Manche), the SMX 31 E still catches the eye with its shape of… sperm whale.

Spotted in a salon in Malaysia

80 meters long and displacing 3,200 tonnesit presents a real breakup compared to its predecessors with the disappearance of the massif, “allowing a significant gain in hydrodynamics and stealth”.

Likewise, thanks to lateral thrustersit frees itself “from the shaft and propeller line, thus gaining space at the rear for weapons”.

Our ambition is to offer a long-term vision, consistent with the operational needs expressed by our customers. This prospective approach allows investment choices to be made for the benefit of systems that will be technologically superior in the long term, throughout the life cycle of ships. The SMX 31 E offers a stealthier, more autonomous and more flexible solution. Much more than an intelligent ship, it constitutes an intelligent naval force to gain superiority in future submarine theaters of operations.

You will have understood, the SMX 31 E is a idea factory rather than a new submarine to be included in the Naval Group catalog.

Nevertheless, some of its innovations will perhaps be used in future SSBNs (nuclear ballistic missile submarines), currently in the study phase.

Until then, theFrench industrialist Maybe there’s a little surprise in store for us. The next Euronaval show, scheduled in November 2024approach. A successor to the SMX 31 E will it arise from the heads and computers of engineers Cherbourg?

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