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Charles de Gaulle 2001 1:400

Charles de Gaulle 2001 1:400
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Charles de Gaulle 2001 1:400
Reference : BB81072-ZO
Charles de Gaulle 2001 1:400



HELLER 81072
Scale 1:400
Skill level
Item Length/Width (Without Packaging) 65,4 x 16,1
Packaging 66,5 x 33,5 x 10,0
Scheme 1
Parts : 140

The story of the Charles de Gaulle began in 1974, the year in which the oil crisis shook the industrialized countries. In this context, the French government decided to launch the construction of the Helicopter Carrier-75, a 16,400 t helicopter carrier equipped with nuclear boilers, a project that was eventually abandoned.

In 1982, the Conseil Supérieur de la Marine asked that the studies carried out for the nuclear propulsion of the PH-75 project (which had since become the Porte-Avions-75 and then the PA-83) be used to define a new generation of aircraft carriers capable of replacing the Clémenceau and the Foch before the end of the century. Nuclear propulsion offered the ship the possibility of staying 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 named Charles de Gaulle was authorised.

She was launched on 7 May 1994 and commissioned on 18 May 2001. A real technical feat, this aircraft carrier has a system of 12 mobile masses of 22 t which compensates for rolling movements and allows the ship to operate its embarked aircraft in force 5 or 6 seas. The Charles de Gaulle's shapes are "stealthy" to reduce its radar signature and make it less easily identifiable. In 2020, France is the only country outside the United States to have completed the construction of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
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2025-12-31 66.9066,90 €