French Navy
The French Navy is 44,000 men and women (37,000 military and 7,000 civilians) serving France, with more than 180 ships, 200 aircraft and 6 commandos units
Assuring a permanence presence of: 30 ships at sea, 5 aircraft in the air, an SSBN undersea. All those units are shared between 6 specific forces
Submarine forces group, together the SSBNs, SSNs and units that assure their command, control and support: headquarters, the operational base of “l’île Longue”, comcens, interpretation and ...
Carrier battle group, amphibious battle group, escortsThe Naval action force (FAN) is made up of 103 out of the 180 ships of the French Navy and of 12,000 men and women.The capital ships of this ...
Being a specialized formation of the “gendarmerie nationale”, working to the naval chief of Staff, the marine gendarmerie takes part in the protection of French sovereignty on the second largest ...
Ships protection and Commandos
The missions of the French Navy increasingly require additional personnel to complete the action of ships and aircraft, either to conduct direct intervention (boarding of ship, fishery control, and ...
Naval aviation is the air component of the French Navy. It is closely linked to the surface ships or submarine thanks to the adaptation of its equipments to the naval context as well as the expertise ...
