South African Indigenous Naval Projects?

[Graugrun]

This is the cumulation of our successfull project to build our own periscopes for our Daphne submarine upgrade many years ago. First Ziess bought shares in our Eloptro, then Hensoldt bought out that share.

The SERO-250 is completely South African designed and built - as the article states it has been installed in the submarines of the South Korean, Greek, Portuguese, Turkish and various other navy's submarines (Type 209 and similar).

Hensoldt South Africa to supply submarine periscope to South American navy​

https://www.defenceweb.co.za/featur...y-submarine-periscope-to-south-american-navy/

 

[kaiserbill]

On another thread, this link to an article was posted:

An Alternative to the SA Navy's Corvettes [Institute for Security Studies, 1996-10-01]

The passage I'm interested in is this:

Since the early 1970s the South African Navy has been trying to replace its type 12 Whitby class anti-submarine frigates which were bought under the Simon's Town Agreement in the early sixties.​

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There were several projects: Taurus in co-operation with Portugal; Burlap, a local design; Picnic in France, and during the last five years two further attempts. All these projects, except Picnic which was cancelled by France in 1978, were cancelled due to the lack of funds.​

I assume "Picnic" was a project name?
Was Picnic the A69 Aviso programme?

 

[Hood]

By the dates I would assume that it was the A69 programme.

 

[Graugrun]

Adding to my previous post #154