September 8, 2020 (Google Translation) – After more than 40 years of good and loyal service in the French Navy, the Lynx anti-submarine warfare helicopter is retiring. It was during a ceremony organized on September 4 at the Lanvéoc-Poulmic naval air base that the 34F pennant was handed over to the Chief of the Naval Staff, Admiral Pierre Vandier, thus…
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French Navy Retires Lynx Helicopter
July 30, 2020 (Google Translation) – On Thursday, July 23, under the illuminated sun of the Iroise Sea, the WG-13 Lynx helicopter from the 34F flotilla made its last takeoff aboard the anti-submarine frigate (FASM) Latouche-Tréville . In service since 1979 on the ships of the Naval Action Force (in particular the frigate F67 and F70 with anti-submarine vocation), this…
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