The French Navy shows its muscles with the torpedoing of the ship Chief Master L’Her

The images are impressive: a 1,000-ton ship lifting and breaking in two after a strong explosion. The French Navy publishes on its social networks a video of an exercise carried out on December 14 by a nuclear attack submarine. Images viewed nearly 200,000 times in a few hours.

The SNA draws a F21 torpedo on the hull of the old ship Chief Petty Officer L’Herwhich had been previously decontaminated.

This ship, which is now resting on the bottom, was launched in 1980 in Lanester and served until the beginning of 2024. It set sail from Brest in February 2024 for a two-month mission in the Atlantic. north.

These F21 torpedoes are designed to equip Rubis and Suffren class SNAs and nuclear ballistic missile submarines.