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OT? French navy help - 9/17/2007 3:03:18 PM   
Bungle


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I say chaps

Looking for a site that provides some detail in regards to the French Pacific assets, lovely sites abound but cant find info on Pacific assets. Maybe I have been to relevant sites but they are in the wrong language, damn their eyes! Almost ready to write a scen., it should be ready by, aww lets say, Xmass....... prolly well before HCCE

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RE: OT? French navy help - 9/17/2007 5:09:17 PM   
BurntFingers

 

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Status: offline 		2 things that might help - you probably already know this but;-

1) Search on "French Polynesia" - this is usual title for the real estate.

2) Alta Vista Babel Fish can translate pretty good; and it's free!

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

EDIT: Hint, when using Babel fish, just put in a sentence at a time. You often need to mess about to get real meaning and it won't translate nouns (people, places or things) much if at all.

Still better than thumbing through a French-English dictionary though.

< Message edited by BurntFingers -- 9/17/2007 5:10:51 PM >

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RE: OT? French navy help - 9/17/2007 5:34:02 PM   
Bungle


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Status: offline 		Cheers Mr Fingers, if I cant find something in Jinglish I might just have to go for the babel fish option. I have found some interesting sites and occasionally in the text it might be noted that this or that ship has completed a tour.... and some mention of excercises with China. I just thought there would have been a more regular Pacific Force.  Back to the probability search engine

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RE: OT? French navy help - 9/17/2007 7:01:45 PM   
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Status: offline 		What are you looking for Bungle, more precisely?

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RE: OT? French navy help - 9/18/2007 3:44:14 AM   
Bungle


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More precisely..... French naval assets based in the Pacific....... could even narrow this down to the western Pacific/New Caladonia. I'll leave the Tahiti region to the surfers for now

If you have information in regards to the Sino-French naval wargames (2006?) and the French units that participated that would help.

thanks

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RE: OT? French navy help - 9/18/2007 7:05:20 AM   
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Status: offline 		in the waiting of better, here are some links, unfortunately in french:

http://www.armees-polynesie.pf/
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/ema/decouverte/commandements_operationnels/forces_de_souverainete/polynesie_francaise/les_forces_armees_en_polynesie_francaise
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/ema/decouverte/commandements_operationnels/forces_de_souverainete/nouvelle_caledonie/les_forces_armees_de_nouvelle_caledonie


btw, the forces are mostly a few frigates, some P400 patrol ships and some MARPAT aircafts


i'll post anything that i'll find in a language more convenient for you ;)

cheers,

Jan

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RE: OT? French navy help - 9/18/2007 9:44:46 AM   
Bungle


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Status: offline 		thanks jan

I ve spent so much time at that damn marine nationale site (which refused to run in english...... hmmmm  ) looking at activites deploiements and activites operations without so much as a cracker. Lo and behold its in les forces armees   Oh well I got to give babel fish translator a damn good run.

btw, the forces are mostly a few frigates, some P400 patrol ships and some MARPAT aircafts

Yep, there doesnt seem to be any high end assets in the region at all, found a newspaper report about the down grading of presence in the Pacific re post nuclear testing, and low due to strategic importance.....  That would put a smile on the face of any 'ANW' expansionist leader in the region.  Muahahahahaaaaa!

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RE: OT? French navy help - 9/18/2007 3:27:36 PM   
Bungle


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Status: offline 		cheers for your help guys

think ive found what i was looking for (3 points if you can name that song) ....... if anyone is interested the sino-french mini excercise can be found here http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/16/content_315366.htm

i was a bit out with my timing, must have been having too much fun the last cople of years    ...its a weather thing

(on second thoughts make that 1 point, far too easy)

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RE: OT? French navy help - 9/18/2007 3:55:00 PM   
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Status: offline 		Bungle, afaik, the French Navy's (Aeronavale) Flotille 25F also operates in French Polynesia, with its HQ at Faaa airport in Tahiti. They were flying 5 Dassault Falcon Gardian aircraft between two detachments at Tahiti and Noumea.

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RE: OT? French navy help - 9/18/2007 10:42:05 PM   
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Status: offline 		And Scramble will show you the airbases of many nations even outside their own borders; for France they show the above mentioned 25F flotilla and some naval helo's.

Freek

P.S. never found a 'scramble-like' site for warships; sometimes I'm forced to use Google earth to look at fleet harbours!

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