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| Foch (R99) |
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Aircraft Carrier |
| Name: Foch |
| Class: Clemenceau-class |
| Ordered: 1955 |
| Builder:Building started in Saint-Nazaire 1957 and continued in Brest |
| Laid down: 15 November 1957 |
| Launched: 13 July, 1959 |
| Commissioned: 15 July, 1963 |
| Decommissioned: 15 November 2000 and sold to Brazil |
Complement: 1.338 men
984 men if only helicopters are carried
1.920 men including the air group |
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Displacement: 24,200 t (23,818 long tons) standard
32,800 t (32,282 long tons) full load |
| Length: 265 m (869 ft 5 in) |
| Beam: 51.2 m (168 ft 0 in) |
| Draft: 8.6 m (28 ft 3 in) |
Propulsion: 6 × Indret boilers
4 × steam turbines 126,000 hp (94 MW)
2 shafts |
| Speed: 32 knots (37 mph; 59 km/h) |
| Range: 7,500 nmi (13,900 km) at 18 kn (21 mph; 33 km/h) |
Armament:
2 systems SACP Crotale EDIR (52 Crotale missiles), 2 systems SADRAL (16 Mistral missiles), 4 turrets 100mm (landed in 1997), 5 machine guns 12.7 mm
Sensors and weapon systems are integrated into an Automated Information Operations Naval Tactics (Senit |
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| Fate: Sold to the Brazilian Navy, re-named São Paulo. |
| Navy site: |
| http://www.defense.gouv.fr/marine_uk |
| Sources for this site: |
http://frenchnavy.free.fr/ships/aircraft-carrier/foch/foch.htm
www.netmarine.net/bat/porteavi/foch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foch_(R_99)
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Foch (R 99) was the second Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier of the French Navy. She was the second warship named in honour of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, after a heavy cruiser commissioned in 1932, and scuttled in Toulon on 27 November 1942.
In 1983, the ship was sent to Lebanon with a CAW composed by six F-8E (FN) Crusaders, fifteen Super-Etendards, three Etendard IVPs, five Br 1050 Alizés and six SA-321G Super-Frelons. Then, the CAW took part in operations over Lebanon.
She was involved in Yugoslavian War between July and August 1993, mid-February, mid-March 1994, February, between May and mid-July 1994 to support UN's troops. In 1990-1991, she didn't take part in Operation Salamandre (Gulf War). Despite this, the ship anchored at Toulon was on state of alert.
The carrier made its last war mission during the Kosovo War between February and June 1999.
After a 37-year career in the French Navy, on 15 November 2000, she was sold to the Brazilian Navy, and renamed NAe São Paulo. In the French Navy, she was succeeded by the Charles de Gaulle (R 91). |
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