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# Belgian-Dutch mine-hunter Vlissingen begins sea trials at Concarneau
- URL: https://sovereigntymonitor.eu/news/2025-03-27-naval-group-exail-vlissingen-rmcm-sea-trials/
- Published: 2025-03-27T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-24T12:02:11.000Z
- Description: Belgium Naval & Robotics (Naval Group and Exail), with Kership as industrial prime, began sea trials for Vlissingen, the Belgian-Dutch rMCM programme's second vessel and the first built for the Royal Netherlands Navy, from Concarneau on 27 March 2025.
- Author: Reidar Balstad
- Tags: Defence and space, #news, #reported, #ai-drafted

Reported AI-drafted [EDR Magazine, 28 March 2025](https://www.edrmagazine.eu/first-sea-trials-of-the-vlissingen-first-mine-countermeasure-vessel-for-the-dutch-navy?ref=sovereigntymonitor.eu)

**What it does not test.** It does not establish that Vlissingen will be delivered on the stated end-2025 schedule, or how the trials themselves performed.

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