Le Redoutable (S 611)
Le Redoutable (S 611)
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| Ship type : | Submarine ( SNLE ) |
| Ship class : | Redoutable class |
| Navy : | French Navy |
| Keel laying : | November 1964 |
| Launch : | March 29, 1967 |
| Commissioning: | 1st December 1971 |
| Builder : | DCN ( Cherbourg ) |
| Home port : | Brest |
| Whereabouts: | On 13. December 1991 shut down . |
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| For technical data, see Redoutable class |
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The Le Redoutable ( S 611 ) was the lead ship of the Redoutable class . The 1971 entered service in Le Redoutable ( French for The Fearsome was) the first nuclear-powered submarine of the French Navy .
The Le Redoutable was decommissioned in 1991 and is now the largest publicly exhibited museum submarine in the world.
history
The construction of the submarine was decided in March 1963. The first nuclear powered submarine in France was developed independently without foreign help. After a 5-year construction period, the new building was subjected to intensive testing from 1969 onwards. The Le Redoutable was put into service by the French nuclear forces on December 1, 1971 . The home base was the Île Longue off Brest .
The boat was initially armed with 16 M-1 missiles, but was soon equipped with the M 2 , which extended 700 km . Both types of missiles had the same nuclear warhead with a charge of 500 kT .
In the 1980s, Le Redoutable was modernized. It was equipped with M 20 missiles. These missiles had a new warhead with a charge of 1.2 MT. The sonar power equipment and the electronics have been improved and the boat capable Exocet - anti-ship missiles by the torpedo discharge pipes to use up. That was the last modernization of the submarine. The Le Redoutable was the only submarine in its class that was no longer armed with the M 4 missiles introduced in 1985 .
The Le Redoutable (S 611) was decommissioned on December 13, 1991 after 20 years of service and 51 patrols. It has been exhibited as a museum ship in the Cité de la Mer in Cherbourg since 2000 .
See also
- List of French submarine classes
- Redoutable , other French ships with the same name
References
- ↑ The L'Inflexible is a transition construction between the Redoutable class and the Triomphant class . She is the only boat in the L'Inflexible class.
literature
- Chris Chant: Modern submarines technology-tactics-armament , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2005, ISBN 3-7276-7150-5
- Robert Hutchinson: KAMPF UNDER WASSER - Submarines from 1776 to today , Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-613-02585-X
Web links
- waffen-der-welt.alices-world.de (information about the nuclear missiles)