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French Navy Receives Nuclear-Powered Tourville Submarine, Offering Enhanced Endurance and Strike Reach
The nuclear-powered attack submarine Tourville was formally inducted into active service by the French Navy on July 4, 2025. The ceremony marked the culmination of nearly 14 years of design, engineering, testing, and strategic planning, and reaffirmed France’s commitment to… The post French Navy Receives Nuclear-Powered Tourville Submarine, Offering Enhanced Endurance and Strike Reach appeared first on The Asia Live.
France commissions Tourville submarine and expands infrastructure for new-generation nuclear fleet
The Barracuda programme envisions a fleet of six advanced nuclear-powered attack submarines (SNA), replacing the older Rubis-class units by 2030. “The Tourville presents prodigious technological and thus operational advances. If one stands out, it is the ability to be deployed twice as long,” said Minister Lecornu. Construction of the Tourville began on 28 June 2011 with the first steel cut at Naval Group’s Cherbourg shipyard. Named after Vice A…
On July 4, by visiting the Toulon naval base, the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, killed two birds with one stone. Indeed, he first inaugurated Missiessy basin No. 2 [or MY02], which was the subject of a vast modernization project carried out under the aegis of the Defense Infrastructure Service [SID]... This article The nuclear attack submarine Tourville has been admitted to active service appeared first on Zone Militaire.
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