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


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! [:D] Almost ready to write a scen., it should be ready by, aww lets say, Xmass....... prolly well before HCCE [sm=00000289.gif]



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

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.



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

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 [;)]



Fishbed -> RE: OT? French navy help (9/17/2007 7:01:45 PM)

What are you looking for Bungle, more precisely?



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


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



ClaudeJ -> RE: OT? French navy help (9/18/2007 7:05:20 AM)

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



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

thanks jan

I ve spent so much time at that damn marine nationale site (which refused to run in english...... hmmmm [:D] ) 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!



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

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 [8D]   ...its a weather thing

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



CV32 -> RE: OT? French navy help (9/18/2007 3:55:00 PM)

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.



FreekS -> RE: OT? French navy help (9/18/2007 10:42:05 PM)

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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