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Navantia - Product Lines

Surface combat F-100 frigate F-110 F-310 "Fridtjof Nansen" frigate Surveillance Avante 3000 patrol ship Avante 300 patrol ship Avante 700 patrol ship Avante 1000 patrol ship Avante 1400 patrol ship Avante 1800 patrol ship Avante 2200 combatant patrol ship Avante 2200 patrol ship Humanitarian missions ALHD Australian Landing Helicopter LPD "Galicia" class Avante 3000 patrol ship Avante 300 patrol ship Avante 700 patrol ship Avante 1000 patrol ship Avante 1400 patrol ship Avante 1800 patrol ship Avante 2200 combatant patrol ship Avante 2200 patrol ship Hospital ship Force projection ALHD Australian Landing Helicopter LPD "Galicia" class Fast landing craft Support and auxiliary ships AOR ALHD Australian Landing Helicopter LPD "Galicia" class M-31 "Segura" class minehunters Research Avante Submarine S80

Navantia's activities include naval construction, propulsion and energy, ship repairs, military and civil platform control systems as well as weapons. It is expected that up to 20% of the company's entire activity will be devoted to civil applications. The new company directly inherits more than 250 years' experience in the construction, maintenance and conversion of the Spanish Navy's ships. Over the last three decades this has meant very close collaboration in the progressive and tough processes involved in strengthening the Spanish fleet.

The company is therefore born as one of the international market's leading naval military systems companies, able to undertake new buildings and carry out life-cycle maintenance and total ship conversion. It is one of very few companies that has a complete capacity in the fields of design, development, production, integration and integrated logistic platform support, propulsion and naval combat systems as well as the ability to deliver fully operational vessels. Navantia also has an enviable product list in military and coastguard vessels and an enormous capacity for undertaking new projects.

Navantia has formed an Innovation Department that concentrates significant effort on RDTI, something that is seen as the key to competitiveness and product differentiation. The company is also a pioneer and leader in the use of integrated modular construction of military ships. This shipbuilding system is used on all products, including submarines.

The company's technological and productive capacities have enabled Navantia's production centres to develop the most complex naval systems over the last few years. Outstanding in the eighties were the Príncipe de Asturias aircraft-carrier and the FFG Frigates (F-81 to 84). In the nineties, the F-85/86 frigates, the amphibious LPD vessels, combat support ships and minehunters. All of these efforts clearly show advanced platform design and on-board system development capabilities. This new century's Strategic Deployment Ship and the S-80 submarines, among other projects, are clear illustrations of innovative technology and productive capabilities.

Navantia is fully equipped to respond to all of the Spanish Navy's requirements and to be one of Spain's main defence exporters. Products such as the aircraft carrier built for Thailand, the first new building of its kind ever sold for export, Europe's most modern frigate built for Norway and conventional submarines being built for Chile and Malaysia. This means that the new company is now taking part in existing military programs for Chile, Norway and Malaysia, in addition to those of Spain.

Navantia is also developing a policy of collaboration with other domestic and foreign companies through strategic product alliances for the design and sale of projects and is actively participating in innovation using internationally recognised technologies. A consortium has also been formed with the French company DCN to develop the Scorpene submarines.

The company formed part of the Afcon Consortium alongside US companies such as Bath Irons, the US Navy's main shipbuilder, and Lockheed Martin, world leader in the design and development of combat systems. Signed in Washington on 26 January 1999, the AFCON Consortium (Advanced Frigate Consortium) brings together Navantia, Lockheed Martin Corporation and the North American shipyard, Bath Iron Works. The aim of this alliance is to go jointly to the international market with new frigates and escort ships, which -as in the case of the Spanish F-100- incorporate the AEGIS anti-aircraft combat system.

The Scorpene Consortium involving Navantia and the French company DCNI, formally agreed in 1991, aims at sharing 50% of the definition, building and sale of a third generation submarine.

Navantia has a complete range of products that includes aircraft carriers and amphibious vessels and this is what has enabled the company to develop the Strategic Deployment Ship, one of the most competitive ships of its kind found anywhere in the world. One of its star products is the F-100 frigate for the Spanish Navy. This ship has the world's best cost-performance-range ratios and has given rise to Spain's biggest ever naval innovation programme. It has also led to highly significant international industrial cooperation programmes and to an entire family of leading-edge technology ships for the export market. This has also enabled the company to become consolidated as a designer and integrator of conventional submarines.

A coalition of NGOs on 11 April 2018 urged Spain not to sign off on a planned sale of warships to Saudi Arabia during an upcoming visit to Madrid by the kingdom's crown prince. The "Arms Under Control" collective, which includes Amnesty International, Oxfam and Greenpeace, also called on Spain to stop exporting arms to the Saudi-led coalition fighting Houthi rebels in Yemen, where thousands of civilians have been killed. During his trip to Spain on 12 April 2018, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman met King Felipe VI and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy - "a meeting during which bilateral agreements will be signed," read the Spanish government's agenda, without giving more details.

Spain's loss-making shipyards are placing a lot of hope on the planned sale of five corvettes, which has reportedly been under negotiation for two years. But rights groups have denounced the deal, saying the warships could be used in Saudi Arabia's military campaign in Yemen. The NGO coalition asked the royal palace and Spanish government "not to promote the signature of Spanish company Navantia's contract to build five corvettes... for the Saudi army and to end arms exports to Saudi Arabia". It also called on Spain "to join a growing number of countries like Germany, Sweden, Norway or Belgium that have stopped exporting arms to the Saudi coalition" fighting in Yemen, which also includes the United Arab Emirates.

Spain is the fourth largest arms trading partner of Saudi Arabia, just after the United States, Great Britain, and France, according to the Peace Research Institute of Stockholm. Between 2015 and 2017, Spain exported over US$900 million (728 million euros) worth of military equipment to Saudi Arabia, just as their coalition began carrying out air strikes in Yemen.

Saudi cargo ships have been docking in Spain since January 2017, when Felipe IV and representatives of the leading 24 Spanish weapon dealers visited Riyadh. Local watchdog organizations have also counted tens of containers loaded each month, amounting to 10,000 tons of weapons. Just one month after, NGOs and civil society organized to kick out the Saudi ship Bahri Hofuf from Santander, the Bahri Jazan arrived to continue the duty on the day of bin Salman's arrival, despite pressure on the Spanish parliament, a change.org petition with over 18,000 signatures and a declaration by the Parliament of Cantabria against arm trafficking.