FOCH
Item no. 81071
GTIN 3279510810714
Scale 1:400
Parts 152
Packaging 335 x 667 x 102 mm
The aircraft carrier Foch (visual call sign R 99) was the sister-ship of the Clemenceau. It was the
second warship named in honour of Marshal Ferdinand Foch, who had declared: „Airplanes [...]
have no military value“. The Foch, put into the hold in February 1957, was built at the Atlantic
shipyards in Saint Nazaire and commissioned on 15 July 1963. The landings were made on the
165 m sloping runway equipped with 4 stopping strands. The 2 steam catapults of 50 m allowed
the take-off of 15/20 ton aircraft at 110 knots. The 2 lifts could lift a 15-tonne aircraft to 8.50 m
in 9 seconds. Between 1980 and 1981, it underwent an IPER (Periodic Unavailability for Maintenance
and Repair) which equipped it with a naval operating system for tactical information, an inertial
power plant for adjusting the aircraft platform before catapulting, missile bunkers for AM-39
Exocet missiles and tactical nuclear weapons. It will thus be able to accommodate 4 or 5 AN-52s
and then the ASMP6 missile. After a 37-year career in the French Navy, it was sold on 15 November
2000 to the Brazilian Navy, which finally disarmed it in November 2018.
Price:49,99 €
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