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83519 1/350 French Navy Le Triomphant SSBN
83519 1/350 French Navy Le Triomphant SSBN


 
Retail Price: $36.99
Scale: 1/350
Brand: Hobbyboss

Stock Status: In Stock

Product Code: 83519
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The Triomphant class of ballistic missile submarines of the French Navy is the active lead boat class of four boats that entered service in 1997, 1999, 2004, and 2010 These four superseded the older Redoutable class, and they provide the ocean-based component the Force oceanique strategique of Frances nuclear deterrent strike force, the Force de Frappe Their home port is Ile Longue, Roadstead of Brest, Western Brittany The first three boats are all armed with the French-produced and armed M45 intermediate-range missile, and the fourth vessel, Terrible, has tested and is equipped with the more advanced M51 missile Each of the first three boats are to be retrofitted to the M51 missile standard, starting with Vigilant in 2010, then Triomphant, and ending with Temeraire in 2018