Author name: SkyDec

We are proud to announce a new partner in our dealer network, Themys S.A. Themys is based in Roquevaire, France and is our exclusive authorized dealer in the French region, under our full support.

Since its founding, by keeping focus on high level service and support as well as on excellent trained and skilled staff,  Themys grew into a world leader as distributor and integrator of maritime equipment. Themys offers its services in the fields of design, engineering, qualification, installation, and maintenance of all kind of maritime equipment, in both the civilian and military sector.

We trust that this new cooperation will be fruitful and beneficial for both companies. As a launching program, the MCMV program couldn’t be more prestigious.

Welcome in our network!

THEMYS SA
Themys S.A. 1746 route du stade
Pont de l’Etoile
13360 Roquevaire
France
+33 (0) 4 42 32 99 00
https://www.themysgroup.com
info@themys-sa.com

Kership, a joint venture between Naval Group and Piriou, is in charge of the production of the twelve vessels which are assembled in Concarneau. They will be armed afloat by Piriou. Naval Group, as overall architect and prime contractor, is responsible for the design of the ships, the overall integration, and the testing and commissioning of the mission system (combat system and mine countermeasures system).

Thanks to the great work by our new French partner Themys, SkyDec military navigation equipment is selected for integration on board of the upcoming MCMV class vessels, to be operated by the Royal Dutch Navy and the Belgian Navy.

SkyDec is renowned for our highly robust navigation solutions, that include for example M-Code Military GPS. Exactly what is needed on this next-generation MCMV class vessels.

The new vessels will replace the existing Tripartite class minehunters, and are suitable for a range of missions: naval mine identification and destruction of course, but also for surveillance, anti-piracy and interception missions for example.

The design is next-generation, the vessels will be equipped with all kind of modern means for mine counter measures that include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

This new generation vessel has an overall length of almost 82 m, a beam of 17 m, and a displacement of 20800 t. We are very happy and proud to be part of this prestigious program, that brings us back on board again on our own countries Navy.

About a year ago, SkyDec was asked to participate in the exposition Recht Door Zee, in Mercator Museum in Sint-Niklaas Belgium. An exposition highlighting the developments in navigating at sea, from the years 1500 until now.

Subtitle of this exposition is

There was a time when sailing the seas was the most adventurous thing one could do: the renaissance equivalent of being an astronaut.

Of course we could see the direct link with our business, but taking part in the upcoming Belgium/Dutch MCMV program introduced another very welcome connection, as the Belgium Navy is also one of the exposition partners.

During the opening, one of the speakers was Rear Admiral of the Belgium Navy, Mr. De Beurme, and he started his speech by saying that being aware of position and time are key values to start any travel . Very true words, underlining the need for robust navigation equipment like we have in our portfolio.

We are proud an honored to be part of this unique exposition. Please see https://www.museasintniklaas.be/tentoonstellingen/recht-door-zee for more information. It’s worth a visit for sure!

During a recent software update to incorporate newly requested features into our Military GPS systems, the Danish Navy decided to start ordering of extra spare sets for their fleet. The SkyDec systems are recognized and appreciated for their great reliability and robustness, nevertheless, Danish Navy prefers to be ahead of any future threat.

With this new spares pool, Danish Navy leads by example to even better secure high-risk operations. SkyDec is proud to bring support!

Anadolu Shipyards (ADIK) has started sea trials of the second Cadet Training Ship for the Qatar Navy. The first CTS was delivered to the QENF in August 2021.

Thanks to great efforts of our Turkish local partner Elektro Deniz, SkyDec was selected by the shipyard to supply Military GPS equipment. We are proud to be on board.

CTS ships are an Offshore Patrol Vessel design, about 90 meters long and 14 meters wide, with 2.150 tons displacement. They are outfitted to host a total of 150 people, about half of them students and trainers. Besides the trainings missions, the secondary role is patrol mission capability.

Contracted by OSI Maritime Systems, SkyDec 06SERIES was selected to fulfil the requirement for Military GPS on board of the Royal Canadian Navy’s new Joint Support Ships.

With a length of almost 174 meters and a breadth of 24 meters, the JSS is the largest naval ship by length ever been built in Canada.

The two Protecteur class vessels will replace RCN’s Auxiliary Oiler Replenishment vessels. The new ships provide replenishment and support to (defense) operations at sea.

We are proud to be on board!

Thanks to cooperation with our Polish partner Thesta, SkyDec Military Navigation equipment has been selected to take part in a long term evaluation during upcoming activities of the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 under Polish Navy command..

The SkyDec equipment will be installed on board FGS Elbe, in the mobile command center, as reliable source of Position, Navigation and Timing information.

Reason for this evaluation is to designate suitable equipment for future retro-fit programs.

We are most happy to bring in our robust PNT source!

For the Polish Kormoran MCM program, we work closely together with our Polish partner Thesta. As part of integration of our 06SERIES MIL GPS host system, this would be the first time to interface with an OSI Integrated Navigation and Tactical System over LAN.

As for any first time, this was the moment of truth. From the integration start, it became clear that Thesta had made a very good preparation. Guided by SkyDec’s remote support, Thesta engineers completed the integration successfully.

We keep on improving and developing our systems. One of the next calls on our roadmap is to add an IEE1588 interface. Such an interface provides high precision timing to various timing platforms. To be continued…