France receives upgraded motorised floating bridges
by Nicholas Fiorenza
The Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA), the French defence procurement agency, announced on its website on 6 May that it had received and delivered the first four upgraded Pont Flottant Motorisé (PFM) motorised floating bridges to the French Army in April.
The DGA received and delivered the first four upgraded PFM F2s to the French Army in April. (Ministère des Armées)
The agency said the upgraded PFM F2 can be equipped with shorter ramps than the 36-year-old PFM F1 it replaces, allowing it to be transported by the same semi-trailer as the module rather than the previous two and to be deployed more quickly. The shorter ramps can handle military load class 40 (MLC40) vehicles weighing 35–40 tonnes.
CNIM reveals new motorised floating bridges
07 April 2021
by Victor Barreira
France’s CNIM Systèmes Industriels has developed a new family of air-transportable modular motorised floating bridge systems: the PFM NG (Pont Flottant Motorisé Nouvelle Génération).
Two versions are available: the PFM LG (Long) and PFM XP (Expeditionary), Xavier Montazel, director of the company’s Defense & Maritime Business Unit, told
Janes on 29 March. The first series of the PFM XP is scheduled to be finalised in June or July, whilea PFM LG is to be built this year.
The PFM XP in the ferry version shown here can lift the M1A2 SEPv3 Abrams, Challenger 2, Leopard 2A7, Ariete, Altay, K2A1 Black Panther, and Leclerc MBTs. (CNIM)