On 5 February, 2026, PIRIOU shipyard launched Trolley de Prévaux in Concarneau, Brittany. It is the first Patrouilleur Hauturier (PH)-class offshore patrol vessel built for the French Navy.
Patrouilleur Hauturier translates as High Seas Patroller.
Despite the title of the post, ten ships of this class are planned.
Specifications:
- Tonnage: 2400t
- Length: 92m
- Width: 14.2m
- Draft: 3.8m
- Speed: 21 knots
- Accommodations: 84 (crew is likely to be about 60)
Based on earlier information, I would expect them to be based in Metropolitan France, in Brest on the Atlantic coast, Cherbourg on the English Channel, and Toulon on the Mediterranean coast.
Among their duties is escort of French Navy nuclear ballistic missile submarines as they depart or enter port. Consequently they have a hull mounted sonar.
Their equipment includes Thales’s NS54 4D (range, bearing, elevation, doppler) AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) multi-function radar that provides fire control for the RAPIDFire 40mm main gun.
There are also counter drone radars ranged around the bridge and a Mistral 3 SIMBAD RC short-range air defense missile system all parts of a Sea Warden Counter UAS system..
Chuck Hill's CG Blog 
Seriously, what would it take for the USCG to be dragged to France and make the deal to build us that OPV