• Zagorath
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          69 days ago

          I’ll take both reasons as cannon, thank you very much

          FTFY

      • Zagorath
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        179 days ago

        Naval Group, a French naval defense company

        Ah shit, that’s the same company Australia had a deal with to buy diesel subs, before our fuckwit former PM reneged on the deal to create AUKUS and buy American nuclear subs.

        • I’m pretty sure that’s a Suffren class, and there’s both diesel and nuclear powered versions. Dunno how I’d tell from the outside, and don’t think the caption is necessarily all that trustworthy.

          • Ah, that makes sense. It’s like when the car dealer shows you the version of the car you want with slightly different features since the one you want isn’t on the lot yet.

        • @HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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          19 days ago

          I think it’s because many nations with subs have nuclear-powered vs diesel-powered. Diesel doesn’t have the vast capabilities to stay underwater for months like nuclear does.

        • @finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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          19 days ago

          I don’t know if that’s a mistake. It might not be a nuclear sub, just a sub which has nuclear weapons capabilities ( though obviously not this particular sub because it’s still in the hands of a defence contractor ( I hope ) ).

      • @bettylaw@lemm.ee
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        29 days ago

        I had real good tingle feels imagining France showing up on our coast during this part of history.
        A real “we got you bro” moment in my imagination.

        Le sad.

      • Camelbeard
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        29 days ago

        Hijacking your commet to add this

        I don’t know much about this stuff, but I have been listening to a ton of podcasts about the war, geopoliticks etc.

        From what I learned, France and the UK have nukes, but not the type you can launch from a submarine. (Unfortunately)