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This is where the birth certificate of the future boat is written, with the cutting of the first sheet
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Gilles Guiganton, production director, in charge of hulls, boilermaking and pre-assembly at Naval Group's Lorient-Lanester site, explains with passion all the stages of the construction of a warship.
A long-term project, which requires 1 million hours of work and the intervention of highly qualified personnel.
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Upstream, the machining machines cut the steel plates to produce the 70,000 elementary parts of the first of the three defense and intervention frigates (FDI) ordered by Greece.
At the same time, the deck of the boat is mounted upside down to avoid scaffolding and reduce strain.
The bridge will be put back in the right direction thanks to a gigantic turning gantry before being "married" to the hull.
At the same time, the pre-assembly of the blocks making up the shell began in another dedicated hall.
Then…
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