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Baudouard explained that naval exercises are constantly adapted to evolving threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhen I left my last ship command in summer 2009 to spend 11 years at the naval staff headquarters in Paris, I left a mechanical navy with ships dating back to the 1970s and \u201980s. And now that I have returned to the fleet, it\u2019s become a digital navy with capacities that are way superior to those we had in the past and which are increasingly adapted to the risk of high-intensity conflict,\u201d the admiral explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said the multimission FREMM frigates were \u201can extraordinary qualitative jump\u201d over their predecessors, notably where anti-submarine warfare is concerned but also thanks to their cruise missiles. 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We work at it every day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">France has enough ships for its missions, the admiral said, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/global\/europe\/2020\/11\/06\/french-navy-begins-broad-revamp-of-its-mine-hunting-abilities\/\">SLAM\/F mine countermeasures<\/a> program \u201cis one of the most innovative programs the Armed Forces Ministry has seen over the past few years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He explained that the idea of using robots deployed from motherships was so that the latter could forego the \u201cextremely stringent anti-acoustic, anti-magnetic and anti-electric standards that mine countermeasure ships normally have to have. 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