Clemenceau Aircraft Carrier
| Ships | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Number | Builder | Launched | Comm. | Decomm. | Notes | |
| Clemenceau | R 98 | DCN Brest | 21 Dec 1957 | 22 Nov 1961 | 03 Mar 1998 | ||
| Foch | R 99 | Saint-Nazaire / Brest | 28 Jul 1960 | 15 Jul 1963 | 15 Nov 2000 | Sold to Brazil. Renamed A12 Sao Paulo | |
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Clemenceau | |
| Country | FRANCE |
| Displacement | 24,200 tons (32,760 in full load)320 t |
| Length | 265.00 m |
| Beam | 51.20 m |
| Draft | 8.60 m |
| Speed | 32 kts |
| Crew | 1920 |
| Propulsion | 6 boilers, 2 Parson turbines producing 126 000 shp (92 640 kw), 2 propellers |
| Range operating | 7 500 miles nautical @ 18 knots 3 500 miles nautical @ 32 knots |
| Armament | 8 X guns of 100 mm AA Mle 53 in the beginning 4 replaced by 2 SACP Crotale EDIR systems, with 52 missiles 5 machine-guns 12.7 mm |
| Electronics | 1 X DRBV-23B radar air (band D) 1 X DRBV-50 radar combined altitude and surface (replaced then by DRBV-15)(bande E/F) 1 X NRBA-50 radar of landing 1 X DRBI-10 three-dimensional radar several DRBC-31 radar of fire control system (replaced by DRBC-32C) DRBN-34 radar of Systéme navigation satellite Syracuse I and Inmarsat Systéme of combat SENIT 2 Countermeasures: 2 lance-lures CSEE Detecting Sagaie of radar ARBR 17 Jammer of radars ARBR 33 |
| Aviation Installations | flight deck (axial): 257 m X 35 m (47 m overall) track oblique with 8°: 165 m X 29,5 m hangar: 180 m X 24 m elevators: 1 axial, 1 side: 16 m X 11 m capacity 15 000 kg steam catapults 2 of 50 m jet fuel: 1 800 m³ gasoline: 110 or 400 m³ ammunition: 3 000 m³ Air park |
| Aircraft | approximately 40 aircraft 15 Dassault Super Standard 4 Dassault Standard IVP 8 Crusaders F-8P 8 Breguet Trade wind 2 Eurocopter Dolphin Pedro helicopters 2 Super Frelon helicopters |
| Complement | 1 338 men, including 64 officers (1 920 men by including the air group) 994 men in helicopter version |
| Specifications | |
|---|---|
| Foch | |
| Country | FRANCE |
| Displacement | 32780 t |
| Length | 265.00 m |
| Beam | 51.20 m |
| Draft | 8.60 m |
| Speed | 32 kts |
| Crew | 1920 |
| Propulsion | steam turbines, 6 boilers, 2 shafts, 126000 shp |
| Armament | |
| Aircraft | F-8E (40 aircrafts) |
| Date Deployed | 1963 |
| Ships | R99 Foch |
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