CHARLES DE GAULLE
Item no. 81072
GTIN 3279510810721
Scale 1:400
Parts 140
Packaging 100 x 665 x 335 mm
The story of the Charles de Gaulle began in 1974, when the oil crisis shook the industrialised
countries. In this context, the French government decided to launch the construction of the
Porte- Hélicoptères-75, a 16,400-ton helicopter carrier equipped with nuclear boilers, a project
that was eventually abandoned. In 1982, the French Navy High Council requested that the
studies carried out for the nuclear propulsion of the PH-75 project (which in the meantime
had become Aircraft Carrier-75 and then PA-83) be used to define a new generation of aircraft
carriers capable of replacing the Clemenceau and Foch before the end of the century. Nuclear
propulsion gives the vessel the possibility of remaining at sea longer without the need to refuel.
More than 10,000 plans were drawn up by the engineers of the Direction des Constructions
Navales (DCN), and on 4 February 1986, the construction of the ship christened Charles de
Gaulle was authorised. It was launched on 7 May 1994 and commissioned on 18 May 2001.
A true technical feat, this aircraft carrier has a system of 12 mobile masses of 22 t which
compensates for rolling movements and enables the ship to use its aircraft on board by
sea at force 5 or 6. The Charles de Gaulle‘s shapes are „stealthy“ to reduce its radar
signature to make it less easily identifiable. In 2020, France is the only country, apart from
the United States, to have completed the construction of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Price:69,99 €
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