{"id":50789,"date":"2026-04-05T09:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/socarenam-launches-third-patrol-vessel-for-belgian-navy\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T09:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T08:30:10","slug":"socarenam-launches-third-patrol-vessel-for-belgian-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/socarenam-launches-third-patrol-vessel-for-belgian-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Socarenam Launches Third Patrol Vessel for Belgian Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On April 2, 2026, French shipbuilder SOCARENAM launched the Castor-class coastal patrol vessel BNS Vega (P-903) for the Belgian Navy. This is the third ship-in-class after Castor and Pollux, launched about a decade earlier. After launch, the vessel was floated out of the dry dock\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.85em;color:#666;border-left:3px solid #c0392b;padding-left:10px;margin-top:1.5em;\"><em>Naval News<\/em> &middot; Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.navalnews.com\/naval-news\/2026\/04\/socarenam-launches-third-patrol-vessel-for-belgian-navy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Naval News<\/a> &middot; 5 April 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.navalnews.com\/naval-news\/2026\/04\/socarenam-launches-third-patrol-vessel-for-belgian-navy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Read full article on Naval News &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 2, 2026, French shipbuilder SOCARENAM launched the Castor-class coastal patrol vessel BNS Vega (P-903) for the Belgian Navy. This is the third ship-in-class after Castor and Pollux, launched about a decade earlier. After launch, the vessel was floated out of the dry dock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":247,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.navalnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/HE-PCPobAAAnS72-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Socarenam Launches Third Patrol Vessel for Belgian Navy","footnotes":""},"categories":[9007],"tags":[9008,9024],"class_list":["post-50789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-security","tag-breaking-news","tag-naval-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/247"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maritimehub.co.uk\/?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}