A successful exercise. On Saturday, December 14, a nuclear attack submarine (SNA) fired an F21 torpedo against “the hull of the former Prime Master L’Her ship, previously decontaminated,” the French Navy announced on Tuesday, for whom this shot “confirms new capabilities “. French submarines.
As the images released by the Navy show, the exercise carried out in real conditions off the Bay of Biscay was conclusive: “From a nuclear attack submarine, the French Navy successfully carried out the first shot under conditions of the new F21 heavy torpedo: greater discretion , range, speed and aim. Congratulations to our sailors and the teams mobilized for their development,” greeted the resigning Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu.
Preparing for “high intensity”
The Navy specifies that “the shot was fired with a combat munition, and not with a test munition, a heavy F21 torpedo capable of destroying surface or underwater threats.”
This exercise, which is part of the Polaris approach, was intended to prepare the Navy “for high intensity.” It made it possible to “test the capabilities of this new generation weaponry” designed to equip the SNA “of the Rubis and Suffren classes, as well as submarines with nuclear ballistic missiles.”
In an increasingly tense geopolitical context, this campaign, “provided for in the military programming law, is of great interest to the forces. It comes as close as possible to reality and provides unprecedented human and operational lessons,” continues the Navy. French.
Source: BFM TV
