On November 5, 1956, a Franco-British expeditionary force landed in Egypt to regain control of the Suez Canal recently nationalized by President Gamal Abdel Nasser, in an operation ...
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The nuclear attack submarine Suffren, the future armed wing of the French Navy, begins its sea trials
We have mentioned it in recent days: the renewal of French attack submarines is well underway. On the one hand, the Suffren, the first in a new class of nuclear attack submarines, now floats ...
Read the articleThe delivery of Naval Group's new generation F21 torpedoes has started in France and Brazil
During his review press conference on February 21, Naval Group boss Hervé Guillou, a few weeks away from retirement, made a point of taking stock ...
Read the articleFrench Navy: possible admission of the Suffren submarine to active service at the end of 2020?
The nuclear attack submarine Suffren, first in the Barracuda program, experienced the first divergence of its nuclear reactor on Tuesday, December 17, 2019. This new symbolic event, after the closure ...
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