The French Navy will upgrade three of its Mistral LHDs by replacing two 20 mm 20F2 cannons on each ship with two Nexter Systems NARWHAL 20B remote weapon stations.
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By Simon Ghesquiere/Marine Nationale (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Mistral (L9013), Tonnerre (L9014), and Dixmude (L9015) will also each gain two Sagem Electro-Optical Multifunction System – New Generation (EOMS-NG) day-night, gyro-stabilised, infra-red search-and-track optronic systems.