Sup' /k/ What do you think about DCNS, the french warship

>>34300551
The Triomphant Class are sexy.
For what I know it's a serious company.

>stealth frigate
>HON HON LET ZE PUT LE GIANT PYRAMID LIKE IN LOUVRE OUI

>>34300949
kek

>>34300551
Frog here. They're great for major units, the Aquitaine class destroyers are the bomb, the La Fayette class (which the belh@rra is replacing as a frigate in French service) was excellent for its time.

If you want some OPVs, light frigates and other small botes, check out Kership. They're a break-away company from DCNS, specializing in small ships. They already did a pair of pretty nice patrol boats for French Guyana, made for such missions as securing the French space center there and hunting drug smugglers, illegal gold miners and teck lumberjacks on jungle rivers

>>34300551

Such a shame that the French navy has got fucked in the bum by budget cuts.

>>34301312

It's okay you guys still have the strongest navy in Europe now that UK bailed out.

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>>34300949
>building pyramids is only okay if my country does it

uh-huh.

>>34301845

How so? The UK is getting two new carriers, 5th gen jets, growing its escort fleet to at least twenty, three new 40 000 ton logistics ships on top of what they've got etc.

>>34300949
The French hate that pyramid at the Louvre. They hated the Eiffel Tower too.

>>34301940
But thats different though

>>34301940
Im not American but i can say that they dropped the Stealth Ships Meme very Fast. You pic related.

>>34301950

I think he meant "in the EU", rather than "in Europe", given his "since UK bailed" comment.

I like some of their ships. They've taken some time to get some tech rolling that others use, but like most things French, even if they have faults, they tend to always look pretty nice.

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But how good is their steel quality?

>>34300551
Mini-Burke sounds like a good time.

>>34302287
>Mini-Burke

It's a light frigate, in what way does it make it a Mini-Burke?

>>34302762
maybe because of the "enhanced anti-air" comment ? Burke began as a AA defense against red missile hordes.

But French are still lacking in the cruise missile department. They can strike with their carrier, they can land an expeditionnary force, but not much in the "light strike with missiles to make a point" department, except going for the -literal for once - nuclear option. Lacked this possibility in Syria, for instance.

I'm not aware of a naval adaptation of the SCALP system, I may be mistaken. My apologies if I missed something.

>>34302851
>I'm not aware of a naval adaptation of the SCALP system, I may be mistaken. My apologies if I missed something.

That's the MdCN, which entered service this year of the FREMM.
It will also equip the Suffren-class SSN.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ggq-zu3b20

>>34302167
Well the French were the first country in the world to build stealth destroyers so I assume they still believe in the meme.

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>>34302171
>but like most things French, they tend to always look pretty nice

Wasn't always that way.

>>34303232
Negro, that's beautiful

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>>34300551
HATS

>>34303232
toot toot motherfucker

>>34303232
It works right up until a storm hits out at sea.

>>34302026
FUN FACT:
>The glass pyramid design for the Louvre was not an original element. In fact, it was I.M. Pei recycling the design that he originally came up with for the JFK Presidential Library, back when it was originally planned to be built in Cambridge, on the banks of the Charles River, at the site in Harvard Square that now houses the Kennedy School of Government, before the Cambridge/Harvard NIMBY's axed it for being too weird looking.

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>>34303232
>single gun turrets

>>34303232
Look at these hips! This beauty was made for sex!

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>>34304084
They made up for that later on by using quad turrets EVERYWHERE.

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It's late here in Yurop. Here's some 50's French Navy Indochina a e s t h e t i c before I go to bed.

>>34303232
I cannot control my erection.

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>>34304399
I call it colonialcore

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>>34304441
Bonne nuit /k/

>>34303203

>first to build stealth destroyers

De Zeven existed before the Horizon.

It was a light frigate the French made first for that, not a destroyer.

>>34302239
Apparently, what's left of the french metallurgy industry produces excellent alloys.

>>34301312
>>34301950

Wait for this fall's new White Paper and 2018 military programmation law, we can expect some pretty good news for the navy.

>>34300551
They're selling ships and subs like hotcakes. Based frogs don't care too much on who they sell to and don't place restrictions on reselling after you bought from them.

>>34300551
>What do you think about DCNS, the french warship builder?

"Excellent defense information security"

>>34303361
a jaunty chapeau, to be sure!