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| Product code: | 81092 |
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| Number: | G1000810920 |
| Country: | Ranska |
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| Brand: | Heller |
The centrepiece of modern navies, the naval air group, or „Task Force“,
allows the projection of large forces in the context of regional crises
or more serious conflicts. Structured around one or more aircraft
carriers, this unit is protected by anti-aircraft and anti-submarine
warfare escort, followed by a squadron train responsible for refuelling
at sea. As early as the 1960s, the French Navy set up such groups, the
new aircraft carriers Clemenceau and Foch were frequently accompanied by
Tartar recast escorts, named after the anti-aircraft system equipping
the Kersaint and Dupetit-Thouars among others. Away from its home port
and sometimes in hostile zones, it is then necessary to supply the group
with fuel, ammunition, spare parts and fresh food. This is the role of
the tanker refuellers, the first modern vessels equipped for this
purpose being the Seine and the Saône. A delicate exercise, refuelling
at sea, or RAM, sees several ships sailing together, the tanker often
being flanked by the aircraft carrier on one side and a wing escort on
the other. The fuel is transferred by means of flexible sleeves, with
the goods passing through pallets suspended by a network of cables.
Finally, an important detail for all the sailors embarked on these
warships, the mail of the families arrives on board on the occasion of
such refuelling at sea!
