Triomphant-class submarine
- Built 4
- Above water: 12,640 ts
- Under water: 14,335 ts
- A K -15 pressurized water reactor ( 150 MW)
- Two diesel engines à 700 KW
- A propeller nozzle ring
- Dmux 80 (active / passive)
- Passive towed sonar
- 4 * 533 mm torpedo tubes 18 * L5/F17 torpedoes
The Triomphant - class is the most advanced submarine class of ship of the French Navy. The first boat of the class entered service in 1997. The strategic nuclear submarines form the maritime part of the French nuclear forces ( Force de frappe ). Her home port is Naval Base Ile Longue, near Brest. They are armed with 16 intercontinental ballistic missiles of the type M 45, each carrying six nuclear warheads.
The Triomphant class replaced the boats Redoutable class and the Inflexible class.
Overview
The Triomphant class was ordered in March 1986 to replace the Redoutable class. It is referred to in French as SNLE -NG ( Sous -Marin Nucléaire d' Lanceur Engin de Nouvelle Génération ), which means about New generation rocket -carrying atomic submarines. Triomphant are much quieter than their predecessors and have a more sensitive sonar equipment.
Originally six armed with M - 5 missile submarines were planned. After the end of the Cold War, the scope of the class was reduced by two units. For cost reasons, the M - 5 project was deleted and replaced by the cheaper M 51. Since the M - 51 missiles before 2010 are ready for use, the submarines are currently armed with M - 45 missiles. Le Triomphant (S 616), introduced in February 1995 by a successful underwater launch of an M 45. A test of the nuclear warhead of these missiles was 1995/1996 when the French nuclear tests in Mururoa far past despite massive international protests instead.
Since the withdrawal of the L' Inflexible (S 615) in 2006, the boats of the Triomphant class, the only strategic nuclear submarines of the so-called force de frappe.
Boats
Incidents
Beginning of February 2009 came the Le Triomphant together with the British submarine HMS Vanguard in the Atlantic, the two ships were slightly damaged, the Le Triomphant could return on February 4 with their own efforts to Brest, the Vanguard according to Faslane -on- Clyde. The incident was added from the British until very late in mid-February.