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Clémenceau aircraft carrier
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| Career
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| Ordered:
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| Laid down:
| November 1955
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| Launched:
| 21th of December 1957
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| Commissioned:
| 22nd Novmber 1961
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| Decommissioned:
| 1st of Octaober 1997
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| Fate:
| scrapped
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| Struck:
| 14th of April 2003
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| General Characteristics
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| Displacement:
| 24200 tonnes (32500 full load)
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| Length:
| 265 m
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| Width:
| 51,20 m
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| Beam:
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| Draught:
| 8,60m
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| Propulsion:
| 6 Indret boilers, 4 steam turbins producing 126 000 HP, 2 propellers
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| Speed:
| 32 knots
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| Range:
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| Complement:
| 1338 men, including 64 officers (1920 men including the air group). 984 men if only helicopters are carried.
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| Armament:
| 8 x 100mm turrets (originally) ; in the 90s, 4 are replaced by 2 SACP Crotale EDIR systems, with 52 missiles; 5 x12,7mm machine guns.
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| Electronics:
| *1 x DRBV-23B air sentry radar
- 1 x DRBV-50 lox-altitude or surface sentry radar (later replaced by a DRBV-15)
- 1 x NRBA-50 approach radar
- 1 x DRBI-10 tri-dimensional air sentry radar
- several DRBC-31 fire radar (later DRBC-32C)
- DRBN-34 navigation radars
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| Planes
| about 40 aircrafts :
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| Motto:
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The Clémenceau (R98), oftem affectuously called "le Clém'", was the 8th aircraft carrier of the French Navy. From the 60s to the 90s, she was the backbone of the French Navy, along with her sister-ship, the Foch. During her career, she sailed more than a million nautiical miles in 3125 days at sea, on all the seas of the world. She was the second French warship to be named after Georges Clémenceau, the first one being a battleship of the Richelieu class, laid down in 1939 and never finished.
Her main missions include
- 1974-1975 : Independence of Djibouti, in the Indian Ocean
- 1982-1984 : Civil war in Libanon.
- 1987-1988 : Iran-Irak war
- 1990 : First Gulf war
- 1993-1996 : War in Yugoslavia
1: 100mm gun; 2: targetting DRBC-31 radar; 3: side elevator; 4: crane; 5: approach radar; 6: altimetry DRBI-10 radar; 7: funnel; 8: DRBV-20 sentry radar; 9: Tacon beacon; 10: low altitude/surface DRBV-50 radar; 11: air sentry DRBV-23 radar; 12: altimetry DRBI-10 radar; 13: targetting DRBC-31 radar;
1: 100mm gun; 11: air sentry DRBV-23 radar; 14: OP3 landing mirror; 15: 4-blade propeler
1: 100mm gun; 13: targetting DRBC-31 radar; 16: HF radio antenas; 17: side stairs
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View of the '' Clémenceau'' where the command tower and the main guns are clearly visible. |
A ''Super-Etendard'' ready for launching of the flying deck of the '' FS Clémenceau'' (16th of July 1997) |
''Super Etendard's' on the flying deck of the ''Clémenceau'' aircraft carrier |
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