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Career Ordered: Laid down: November 1955 Launched: 21th of December 1957 Commissioned: 22nd Novmber 1961 Decommissioned: 1st of Octaober 1997 Fate: scrapped Struck: 14th of April 2003 General Characteristics Displacement: 24200 tonnes (32500 full load) Length: 265 m Width: 51,20 m Beam: Draught: 8,60m Propulsion: 6 Indret boilers, 4 steam turbins producing 126 000 HP, 2 propellers Speed: 32 knots Range: Complement: 1338 men, including 64 officers (1920 men including the air group). 984 men if only helicopters are carried. Armament: 8 x 100mm turrets (originally) ; in the 90s, 4 are replaced by 2 SACP Crotale EDIR systems, with 52 missiles; 5 x12,7mm machine guns. Electronics: *1 x DRBV-23B air sentry radar 1 x DRBV-50 lox-altitude or surface sentry radar (later replaced by a DRBV-15) 1 x NRBA-50 approach radar 1 x DRBI-10 tri-dimensional air sentry radar several DRBC-31 fire radar (later DRBC-32C) DRBN-34 navigation radars Planes about 40 aircrafts : Motto:
The Clémenceau (R98), oftem affectuously called "le Clém'", was the 8th aircraft carrier of the French Navy . From the 60s to the 90s, she was the backbone of the French Navy, along with her sister-ship, the Foch . During her career, she sailed more than a million nautiical miles in 3125 days at sea, on all the seas of the world. She was the second French warship to be named after Georges Clémenceau , the first one being a battleship of the Richelieu class, laid down in 1939 and never finished.
Her main missions include
1974-1975 : Independence of Djibouti, in the Indian Ocean 1982-1984 : Civil war in Libanon. 1987-1988 : Iran-Irak war 1990 : First Gulf war 1993-1996 : War in Yugoslavia 1: 100mm gun; 2: targetting DRBC-31 radar; 3: side elevator; 4: crane; 5: approach radar; 6: altimetry DRBI-10 radar; 7: funnel; 8: DRBV-20 sentry radar; 9: Tacon beacon; 10: low altitude/surface DRBV-50 radar; 11: air sentry DRBV-23 radar; 12: altimetry DRBI-10 radar; 13: targetting DRBC-31 radar;
1: 100mm gun; 11: air sentry DRBV-23 radar; 14: OP3 landing mirror; 15: 4-blade propeler
1: 100mm gun; 13: targetting DRBC-31 radar; 16: HF radio antenas; 17: side stairs
View of the ''
Clémenceau '' where the command tower and the main guns are clearly visible.
A ''Super-Etendard'' ready for launching of the flying deck of the ''
FS Clémenceau '' (16th of July 1997)
''Super Etendard's' on the flying deck of the ''Clémenceau'' aircraft carrier