TASK FORCE "RAVITAILLEMENT A LA MER
Item no. 81092
GTIN 3279510810929
Scale 1:400
Parts 583
Packaging 335 x 665 x 100 mm
The centrepiece of modern navies, the naval air group, or „Task Force“, allows the projection of
large forces in the context of regional crises or more serious conflicts. Structured around one or
more aircraft carriers, this unit is protected by anti-aircraft and anti-submarine warfare escort,
followed by a squadron train responsible for refuelling at sea. As early as the 1960s, the French
Navy set up such groups, the new aircraft carriers Clemenceau and Foch were frequently
accompanied by Tartar recast escorts, named after the anti-aircraft system equipping the
Kersaint and Dupetit-Thouars among others. Away from its home port and sometimes in
hostile zones, it is then necessary to supply the group with fuel, ammunition, spare parts
and fresh food. This is the role of the tanker refuellers, the first modern vessels equipped
for this purpose being the Seine and the Saône. A delicate exercise, refuelling at sea, or RAM,
sees several ships sailing together, the tanker often being flanked by the aircraft carrier on one
side and a wing escort on the other. The fuel is transferred by means of flexible sleeves, with
the goods passing through pallets suspended by a network of cables. Finally, an important
detail for all the sailors embarked on these warships, the mail of the families arrives on board
on the occasion of such refuelling at sea!
Price:69,99 €
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