Suffren-/Barracuda-Klasse SSN

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Submerged Displacement:4600 t
Lenght:86 m
Max.diving depht:>300m

Barracuda - the future attack submarine (SSN)

The requirement

The Barracuda attack submarine programme is aimed at the replacement of the six modernised "Rubis" class ("Améthyste") nuclear attack submarines when they reach the end of their service life between 2012 and 2023. The plan is to build six submarines under this programme.

The Barracuda submarine will, like its predecessors, have an anti-submarine and anti-surface vessel role. Their principal tasks will be screening for the Strategic Oceanic Force, escort for the air/naval task force, and deep-sea patrol and superiority.

The essential characteristics of these roles require the Barracuda submarines to be nuclear powered, as are their predecessors. (...)

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France Unveils Plans For New Barracuda SSNs

By ANTONY PRESTON

Antony Preston, a London-based naval analyst and broadcaster, is cofounder of the international newsletter NAVINT.

The French Marine Nationale has for some years been studying options for a new generation of nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) to replace, between 2012 and 2022, the six Rubis and Améthyste classes of SSNs now in the fleet. The project goes back some years, to the long-forgotten Sousmarin Nucleaire Attaque Futur (SNAF), but has changed dramatically as a result of technical advances in all areas of design. (...)

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