• TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    19 hours ago

    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.

    • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works
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      13 hours ago

      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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      17 hours ago

      Canadian football fields are 100m, so just the right size for us!

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        16 hours ago

        CFL fields are 110 yards, which is about 100m. Close enough I guess :)