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Direction des Constructions Navales

French naval shipbuilder DCN (Direction des Constructions Navales) is part of the French Ministry of Defence. Most of the fighting ships operated by the French Navy are designed, built, tested and maintained by DCN. Further every weapon carried by every warship in the French Navy was integrated by DCN. A total of six submarines of the Redoutable class were built at Cherbourg Naval Dockyard - part of the major French Naval builder DCN, from 1967 to 1982.

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