{"id":30264,"date":"2015-02-18T03:00:46","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=30264"},"modified":"2018-01-11T16:33:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T21:33:52","slug":"a-tour-of-the-french-ballistic-missile-submarine-le-redoutable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2015\/02\/18\/a-tour-of-the-french-ballistic-missile-submarine-le-redoutable\/","title":{"rendered":"A tour of the French ballistic missile submarine <em>Le Redoutable<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/americandigest.org\/mt-archives\/driveby\/a_tour_of_the_ballistic.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gerard Vanderleun<\/a> posted a link to this set of photos of the retired French submarine <em>Le Redoutable<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fascinating and worthwhile for the blend of megadeath and French lifestyles: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnet.com\/pictures\/a-tour-of-the-ballistic-missile-submarine-redoutable\/?ftag=ACQ0249d8e&#038;vndid=nationalreview\" target=\"_blank\">A tour of the ballistic missile submarine <em>Redoutable<\/em> (photos)<\/a> the largest submarine you can tour without security clearance, and one of the only ballistic missile subs fully accessible to the general public. The French nuclear submarine <em>Redoutable<\/em> spent the &#8217;70s and &#8217;80s at sea and was home to 135 sailors for months at a time. The missile boat-turned-museum resides in the French seaside town of Cherbourg after extensive refurbishment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_30265\" style=\"width: 704px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30265\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-from-the-bow.png\" alt=\"It&#039;s pretty much impossible to get a full shot of the sub, given where it rests. Let&#039;s just say, it&#039;s big.\" width=\"694\" height=\"518\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-from-the-bow.png 694w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-from-the-bow-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-from-the-bow-480x358.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s pretty much impossible to get a full shot of the sub, given where it rests. Let&#8217;s just say, it&#8217;s <em>big<\/em>.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_30267\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30267\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-engine-control-room.png\" alt=\"Man, this looks like a nuclear power station control room. Oh, wait, it is. Along with all the other moving and dangerous parts of the &quot;drivetrain.&quot;\" width=\"692\" height=\"516\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-engine-control-room.png 692w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-engine-control-room-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-engine-control-room-480x358.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Man, this looks like a nuclear power station control room.<br \/>Oh, wait, it is. Along with all the other moving and dangerous parts of the &#8220;drivetrain.&#8221;<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_30268\" style=\"width: 702px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-30268\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-missile-hatches-exterior.png\" alt=\"The 16 missile hatches, with the lovely Cherbourg harbor in the background.\" width=\"692\" height=\"518\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-missile-hatches-exterior.png 692w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-missile-hatches-exterior-150x112.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Le-Redoutable-missile-hatches-exterior-480x359.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-30268\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The 16 missile hatches, with the lovely Cherbourg harbor in the background.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gerard Vanderleun posted a link to this set of photos of the retired French submarine Le Redoutable: Fascinating and worthwhile for the blend of megadeath and French lifestyles: A tour of the ballistic missile submarine Redoutable (photos) the largest submarine you can tour without security clearance, and one of the only ballistic missile subs fully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1117,5],"tags":[108,30,107,364],"class_list":["post-30264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-france","category-military","tag-coldwar","tag-navy","tag-nukes","tag-submarine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7S8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30264"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30269,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30264\/revisions\/30269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}