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Mistral class LHD (2004)

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Marine Nationale: L9013-9015 FS Mistral, Tonnerre, Dixmude Bastille Day Special! The Mistral class are five landing helicopter docks built in France also called “projection and command ships” (BPC). They were tailored to operate and maintain sixteen NH90 or Tiger helicopters, four landing craft with a capacity for 70 vehicles and 450 soldiers, a 69-bed hospital, … Read more

Lafayette class Frigate (1992)

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French Navy: 5 Frigates (F710-714), active: La Fayette, Surcouf, Courbet, Aconit, Guépratte. Bastille Day ! The Lafayette class were the last French Frigates designed in the Cold War, with a construction which started in 1990 and five completed until 2001, all active today and modernized. Their specificity was to embrace fully the stealthy characteristics we … Read more