Talk:Current French Navy ships

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Could this article be completely renewed, this time without any of the cancelled or decommissioned ships! It is after all titled "CURRENT French Navy ships"... I think the clue lies there. David 17:11, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Right, I've cleared out all of the decommissioned, cancelled or future ships. Could someone with more knowledge of the French Navy please update the list to "as of 2006" and keep updating it as needs be. David 22:06, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

Why does the FN use the term 'frigates' and not destroyers? In Anglo Saxon world at least the term frigate was a reintroduction during WWII. So where the French escorts of WWII called frigates or did the FN later reintroduce what was an originally French term? 145.253.108.22 10:26, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

The term "destroyer" is never used officially to caracterise French ships (though the word destroyer exists in French). The equivalent term is contre-torpilleur (litterally either "large torpedo boat" or "torpedo boat killer").

Modern ships ranking "destroyer" by NATO standards (those with a pennant number prefixed with a "D") are called frégates (in my opinion the ships of the Horizon class could be called croiseurs...).

As for those ranking Frigate (with a F-XXX pennant number), the larger ones are called frégate (the Floréal and La Fayette class) and the smaller ones are called aviso (the A69 class). Rama 12:08, 13 September 2007 (UTC)