Specifications

Aeronautical installations and carrier air wing

Weapons

Electronic equipment

Machinery and crew

Specifications	(US)	(FR)
Dimensions	869. 423 ft (length) x 167. 979 ft (width)	265 m (length) x 51. 20 m (width)
Range	7 500 nm @ 18 kts	7 500 nm @ 18 kts
Speed	32 knots	32 knots
Horsepower	126 000 hp	92 640 kW
Washington displacement	24 200 t	24 200 t
Displacement	32 700 t	32 700 t

Aeronautical installations and Carrier Air Wing

Carrier Air Wing :

• 15 Super-Etendard strike aircraft.
• 4 Etendard IVP recce aircraft.
• 8 F-8P/ E (FN) Crusader fighters.
• 8 Br-1050 Alizé anti-submarine aircraft.
• 2 AS-365 F Dauphin or AS-565 Panther rescue helicopters.
• 2 SA-321G Super-Frelon tactical transport helicopters.

As a helicopter carrier the Clemenceau class carriers can accommodate forty helicopters :

• SA-330 Pumas.
• Gazelles.
• Super Pumas.

Aeronautical installations :

• Two hangars (180 m long x 24 m wide x 7 m height/ 3 300 m²) able to accommodate twenty aircraft.

• Two lifts able to carry a 15 t fighter (16 m long x 12 m wide) ; the first one is situated on the starboard, behind the island and the second one is situated in front of the island.

• A flight deck (259 m long/ 8 800 m²) with a main runway (165. 50 m x 29. 50 m) angled 8° and a parking (93 m x 28 m).
• Two Mitchell Brown BS-5 catapults (length : 50 m) able to launch one 15 t fighter a minute. The first one at the bow of the ship and the latter on the angled deck.
• Four arresting wires.

• A 15 t crane.
• An optical mirror landing system with a OP3 French optic.

• Landing help system (DALLAS).

1: angled deck - 2: four arresting wires - 3: shutter - 4: starboard and bow lifts - 5: 15 t crane - 6: portside catapult - 7: axial catapult - 8: landing mirror

Capacities :

• 3 600 t of heating oil.
• 207 t of diesel oil.
• 2 000 m³ of TR5.
• 400 t of water (for the propulsion).
• 1 700 t of drinking water.

Weapons

CV Clemenceau/ Foch in 1957-1886 :

• DCA - eight 100 mm cannons.

CV Clemenceau/ Foch in 1986-1997 :

• DCA - four 100 mm cannons.
• SAM - 2 Crotale Edir (octuple launchers + 36 missiles in reserve).

CV Foch in 2000 :

• SAM - 2 Crotale Edir (octuple launchers + 36 missiles in reserve).
• SAM - 2 Sadral (sextuple launchers).
• Five 12, 7 mm guns.

The weapon system is managed by the SENIT 2/ 01 (Système de Traitement des Informations Tactiques/ processing System for Tactical data).

Electronic equipment

Radars :

• Navigation - 1 DECCA-1226.
• Air search - 1 DRBV-23B.
• Air/ surface search - 1 DRBV-15.
• Air search and altimetry - 2 DRBI-10s.
• Fire control - 2 DRBC-32Cs.
• Landing approach control - 1 NRBA-51.
• Navigation - 1 DRBN-34.

Sonar :

• Westinghouse SQS-505 (removed in 1988 from the CV Foch).

Decoys :

• Jammer - 1 ARBB-36.
• Radar detector - 1 ARBR-17.
• 2 CSEE Sagaie 10-barrel launchers.

TACAN :

• SRN-6.

Command and Control Systems :

• SENIT 2 (including link 11 & 14).

Communications :

• Syracuse 2.
• Fleetsatcom.
• Inmarsat.

Machinery and crew

Machinery :

• 2 turboprop groups GEC-Alsthom.
• 2 propellers.

Crew :

• 64 officers.
• 476 petty officers.
• 798 men.
• + 582 CAW staff.