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Sweet :) 142 vs 102 m Jura...

Reading... 8 FREMM ordered but if we do as RN which have buy 4 big Repl. ships Tide Class in South Korea for about 600 mill €, 37000 t fast capable 27 kn more than a Supply !!! we want 3 new, want in France, St-Nazaire shipyard 1500 millions and in SK possible 500 millions for all, so we save 1000 millions for can afford 2 new FREMMs and without modernized 5 La Fayette ( for some years really useful ?? ) for 500 mill we can afford a FTI in more 6th annouced to 400 millions, some ideas.
 
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Main problem as Royal Navy get with Trafalgar replaced by Astute a new delivered one or two years after retirement and in general a Fleet reduced by one ! for deployment more difficult ... !

Delivery of SNA Suffren postponed to 2019

"The Finance Bill for 2017 confirms what we could suspect. Under construction on the site DCNS Cherbourg, series head of the new nuclear submarines to attack the French Barracuda kind will not be delivered before 2019. Notified in December 2006, this major program of the Navy originally planned a reception first building in 2017. The calendar, which had already slipped a year, is offset by a further year. Nothing really surprising given the complexity and industrial challenge that represents such a warship with nuclear propulsion, for which a limited delay to two years on the prototype is almost a surprise, as the major military programs in France Moreover, often suffer more delays.

On the side of the Directorate General of Armaments, end September was indicated to be "confident", stressing that there was Barracuda "no feasibility problem" and that the program was going "nominally". The director of the Management Unit of Naval operations (UM NAV) of the DGA reminded that testing of Suffren "will be the appointment of three programs with the addition of Barracuda, the dry deck shelter and new propulsion submarines commandos and F21 torpedo. "

The launching of the first Barracuda should occur next year and his first voyage in 2018. While his first sistership, the Duguay-Trouin, is being assembled and should reach the French Navy 2020, other (Tourville, De Grasse, Casabianca and Ruby) will be gradually delivered by DCNS until 2029.

For now, four SNA of this type have been ordered, the notification of the final questioner in July 2014. The contract for the fifth and penultimate Barracuda is expected in 2017.

These new buildings will replace number for many submarine Rubis kind, whose seed shall be removed from service early 2017. "
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