[frithguild]

This will be used by the Navy crew and DCNS specialists to test the vessel’s safety systems and equipment, including fire-fighting, flood control and emergency response systems and evacuation procedures as well as manoeuvrability and mooring performance.

This will include critical, central misson automatic software systems:

This is the reason for the DCNS acronym - it means Dans Critique Nautiques Sabordage

http://translate.google.com/#fr|en|Dans%20Critique%20Nautiques%20Sabordage

[incredulous in PA]

It is larger and slower than a Fletcher class destroyer in WW2, or any of it’s derivatives, and can’t travel as far. Probably isn’t as heavily armored either. Somebody aught to revisit some successful war ship designs someday.