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Hijacking the top comment to let people know this isn't in response to any American threats, this is Naval Group, a French naval defense company, showing off their submarine because Canada is looking to spend 60 billion on twelve submarines. The plans for this purchase were publicly announced on July 10, 2024.
Here's a French news article about the submarine, seeing as I couldn't seem to find any sources in English.
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)
I had real good tingle feels imagining France showing up on our coast during this part of history.
A real βwe got you broβ moment in my imagination.
Le sad.
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'll take both reasons as canon, thank you very much
FTFY
without cannons, how will they fight?!?
Weird that they specify "conventionally powered" in the Canadian article since this is a nuclear powered sub.
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.
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.
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 ) ).
That's an attack sub (for attacking ships/other boats), not a boomer (which have nukes).