France manages to get a sub to us before the UK even deigns to comment. That says it all. Merci beacoup!
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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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.
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.
Weird that they specify "conventionally powered" in the Canadian article since this is a nuclear powered sub.
This isnβt a show of force, itβs a demonstration for Canada who is planning to buy a number of these submarines from France.
You're right, thanks for adding context. I'm immediately suspicious when a picture is posted with no accompanying news article, and my search wasn't turning up any articles, only social media links.
Australia watching on with regret.
Morrison is such a dickhead.
Morrison knew what he was doing, the sub deal was to poison the chalice before Labor gained the majority.
Unfortunately for the walking sack of salmonella and shitty curry, his wrangler (Murdoch) managed to sway the election enough to get the LNP back in power.
I have actually met Morrison in person once (friends of friends of friends) and he is a fucking moron but JFC he's at least a brain cell or two ahead of Dutton
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We knew that BEFORE the election and yet elected the LNP anyway, fuck voters.
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Lamp Oil, Rope, Nuclear Subs? You want it? It's yours, my friend. As looong as you have enough Euros.
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Could have imagined this happening as little as 3 years ago.
An ally sending a nuclear deterrent into our waters as a message/warning to the US. This normally happens to countries like Iran or North Korea
Hey. Guess what? At the moment, we're the bad guys...
At the moment? When was there ever a time the US weren't the bad guys?
Briefly the us was the good guys when we killed a bunch of slavers and then when we killed a bunch of fascists. Those were exceptions to the rule though.
Looks at founding fathers... Yeah killed the slavers. Puts blanket over Native Indians. Hides Chinese rail workers under rug. Renames Irish "Indentured workers"
They also killed the Nazis, except for the ones that were useful, of course.
I kinda root for them in the war of independence
Yup
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To be accurate, this is a nuclear propelled attack submarine. It does not carry nuclear warheads and is not what we normally call a "nuclear deterrent".
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Still hasnβt happened. This was a sales pitch for a Canadian defence contract.
Let's go! France is here to protect Canada!
Na, theyβre just finishing the 7years war-round 2
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JT was just in France as one of his last acts as PM. Mere days later this bad boy shows up in a Halifax harbour. π€π€π€ Merci a la belle France π«π·π€π¨π¦
Vive la France!
Would a french submarine wear its hat like this:
or like this:
Asking the real questions
The top one looks like he got hit on the head.
The scale of these things is always fascinating. They're always much larger than I think they are.
For reference, I think that's a Suffren class, making it just shy of 100m, or a tad longer than a football field for my fellow Americans.
perchance, banana for scale?
It's there, but hard to see.
It's a football field, Micheal. How big could it be, a banana?
Whollottabanana!
The previously-mentioned French article says it's a Barracuda, but I don't know if that's a model or a class.
And unsurprisingly, he also decided to offer the Royal Canadian Navy its "premium" model, the Barracuda, rather than the Scorpène.
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Donβt tease me!
NOBODY backs an American Revolution like the French!
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Fuck yeah.
Finally. Letting the French keep a little bit of Canada pays off.
During a period with seemingly very little good news in the world, I really needed this. Assuming it was done for the optics it conveys, it's some much needed reassurance that our allies actually have our back. Granted, we're still absolutely fucked in the short term if the worst happens, it's still nice to see.
Source?
Here's a French article about it. It's not a show of force, it's a naval defense company showing off their submarine in the hopes of being granted a 60 billion dollar contract for 12 submarines that the Canadian government announced last summer.
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nuclear subs always give me gundam carrier ship vibes
O hai!
Important note: The "Nuclear" in "Nuclear attack submarine" means that it is powered by a nuclear reactor. It does not refer to its armament. An "attack" submarine means it is designed to attack ships and other submarines and these are typically not capable of carrying and launching ICBMs. Nuclear-armed deterrent submarines are called Ballistic Missile Submarines.
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