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Originally Posted by Stewy
Oko, I don't mean to get into this flame war, because I really respect the French SSBNs, but I wanted to ask (quite innocently and respectfully) why does France still maintain SSBNs?
Given the current climate in France, and the world - who are France's nuclear enemies?
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This is an excellent question
Why ANY country maintain SSBNs ...
Isn't it a useless weapon now ?
Isn't it a DANGEROUS useless risk ?
Without SSBN, you can't have a nuclear holocaust for any reasons, just because there is no SSBN ....
But with SSBN, whatever the security you can use, you still have a risk something goes bad, for whatever reason (i don't want to mention or evaluate each of them ....)
Whatever you do, there is ALWAYS a risk as long as these dinosaurus survive.
You said, stewy, why does France maintain SSBN
why US, Russian, Chinese and UK still maintain them ...
because they was the fleuron of their navies ?
Because they just don't know what to do with them, and their crew ?
because these 5 countries are the 5 permanent members of the NATO security consil, and so think they have legitimity to do that ....... ?
the bad aspect of conserving these dinosaurus is they give legitimate revendication to growing nation for acquiring the military nuke : why them (older owner) and why not me.
But I also know our democracy, in west europe, were built without soviet invasion, mainly thanks to nuke dissuasion.
France was the latest to built SSBN at this date.
and our actual generation will work for the next 30 years.
I think this money could have been better used since the end of the cold war.