The French Navy mirrored the RN Type 22 with its own ASW escort programme
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Leygues-class_frigate
Comparisons are interesting and there were even 2 AD derivatives.
The French built three large ASW destroyers in the 70s...
I've found this article in the Warship International, Vol. 22, No. 2 (1985) about Some French Fast Battleships—That Might Have Been:
These are some interesting proposals from the Naval College graduates.
The two battlecruiser designs mentioned at the end were Georges Edmond Just Durand-Viel...
I have always been struck by the fact that France made much better use of the Surcouf class, their equivalents of the RN Daring class
http://www.seaforces.org/marint/French-Navy/Destroyer-Frigate/Surcouf-class.htm
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daring-class_destroyer_(1949)
4 Tartar or Ikara...
Hello there!
I've been trying to find data on French aircraft carrier designs between the Joffre and the Clemenceau (PA-54). I've found plenty of data on the PA-28, but I'm very interested in the supposed PA-25 design from Vichy France and the PA-27, PA-29, PA-31 designs from 1945 onwards...
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the history guy
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I've read in a few places that there were a couple of proposals (one from the US and another by the French after the war's end) to turn the unfinished French battleship Jean Bart into an aircraft carrier (which were obviously refused). Tzoli seems to have made a mockup of how it might've looked...
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Hello! I'm currently searching the data about this little guy:
This is BHT-38 (Bombe Hurel-Turck) radio-controlled glide bomb, designed for French military shortly before World War 2. It was supposed to have a weight about 160 kg. Some examples were tested in 1940, but Fall of the France...
1940s
anti-ship
anti-ship bomb
armeé de l'air
forces aériennes françaises libres
forces françaises libres
france libre
french fourth republic
french third republic
guided weapon
interwar period
late 1930s
marinenationale
post-world war ii
pre-world war ii
provisional government of the french republic
vichy france
http://3dhistory.de/wordpress/warship-drawings-warship-blue-prints-warship-plans/french-submarine-drawingsplan-sets/french-submarine-surcouf-as-build-1929/
It's the sous marin de croisière type Q5 concept for the Surcouf.
http://www.hisutton.com/SNLE-3G.html
https://www.navyrecognition.com/index.php/news/defence-news/2018/october-2018-navy-naval-defense-news/6538-here-is-the-first-image-of-the-french-navy-next-generation-ssbn-snle-3g.html
Expected into service in ~2032. 16 SLBMs, 14,500 tons surfaced.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjOxF52MiQ0
http://www.armyrecognition.com/french_army_france_wheeled_armoured_vehicle_uk/jaguar_ebrc_6x6_reconnaissance_combat_armoured_vehicle_ebmr_scorpion_technical_data_sheet_pictures.html
It's supposed to operate alongside the Panhard CRAB and the Griffon...
2010s
2020s
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armée de terre
cold war ii
directorate general of armaments
france
french fifth republic
fusiliers marins
marinenationale
scorpion programme
troupes de marine
Via CDR Salamander:
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/fti-medium-size-frigates/
http://www.defensenews.com/articles/france-unveils-new-fti-frigate-ship-is-designed-for-the-french-navy-and-for-export...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Kanguroo
From reading the description of the ship, the SS Kanguroo (1912) was a dock type heavy lift ship, built initially to transport submarines, but with access to the dock being done by dismantling the bows and rebuilding them after loading. According to the...
I am utterly confused about the original French plans for the deployment of this missile, the wiki page for the Suffren class destroyers states that six ships were originally planned and that this became two batches of three (the second tentative?) then just two ships when the money for the...
anti-air warfare
anti-submarine warfare
area air defence
cold war
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destroyer
early 1960s
france
french fourth republic
late 1950s
marinenationale
surface to air missile
surface-to-air missile
I've caught papacavy's "What If" disease, but this is purely for interest rather than literary purposes.
As we all know, the Fairey Battle was an airplane which, once tested in combat, did not imbue its crews with any confidence that they would come home from attacking defended targets. Let's...
allies
alternate history
anti-tank
armeé de l'air
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british expeditionary force
close air support
dive bomber
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french third republic
interwar period
l'aéronautique navale
light bomber
marinenationale
operation david
royal air force
royal navy
united kingdom
world war ii
Hi,
As I promised before,we can take here about French Aircraft Specifications,and we start
year by year,that 's meaning;we will speak about one year at first to complete its Specifications
and contenders,we will leave two to three days to each year...
SNCAO was a short-lived company originating from the nationalization of Loire-Nieuport and Breguet factories. It had design studies in Issy-les-Moulineaux (former Nieuport), using even numbers (200, 400...), and in Saint-Nazaire (former Loire), using odd numbers.
- CAO.200 fighter, 1 built
-...
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