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JANUARY 2015 48 CompositesWorld INSIDE MANUFACTURING » A response to the changing needs of modern navies with greatly reduced acquisition and operations budgets, the Ocean Eagle 43 is a light ocean patrol vessel (OPV) that makes use of modern electronics for multiple missions — many of low intensity but high economic import, such as anti-piracy and surveillance of fshery, oil and gas and other maritime resources. Constructed of composites by Chantier Naval H2X (La Ciotat, France) for shipbuilder CMN (Paris and Cherbourg, France), the new 43.6m OPV benefts from CMN's 68 years of surface-combatant craft experience and construction of hundreds of advanced vessel designs for 38 navies around the world. Part of the Ocean Dark knights: Sleek trimarans surveil the seas Epoxy-infused patrol boats outperform less nimble and more costly conventional naval craft.