French Navy’s New Suffren Class Attack Submarine

[Mr Quatro]

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Suffren is the first of 6 Barracuda type boats for the French Navy. She was laid down in December 2007 and launched in July last year.
She successfully completed a static dive test, part of the builder’s trials, on April 28.

At around 5,000 tons surfaced she is about twice the size of the diminutive Rubis class. And larger than any non-nuclear types in service around the world.
Yet she is still smaller than either the Royal Navy’s Astute Class (~7,000 tons) and the U.S. Navy’s Virginia Class (~8,000 tons).