fs inflexible

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ength	130 m
isplacement	9,000 tons (submerged)
omplement	115 men
ower Plant	One PWR
ower	16,000 shp
peed	25 knots
rmament	16 M4 MSBS (Mer Sol Balistique Strategique) nuclear missiles four 533 mm torpedo tubes ECAN torpedoes SM-39 Exocet

L'Inflexible is the 6th and last of the Redoutable class SNLE (Sous-marin Nuclaire Lanceur d'Engins, "Nuclear Vehicle-Launching Submarine"). Construction began on March 27, 1980; launched on June 23, 1982, it was comissionned on April 1, 1985. It is part of the Force Ocanique Stratgique (FOST) ("Oceanic Strategic Force"). L'Inflexible uses basically the same design than the other Redoutable-class vessels, but has yet benefited from technologal advances over its predecessors:

It uses the M4 missile, which carries 6 independent 150 kilo-tonne nuclear warheads. Range it reported to be "over 4500km".
Miscellaneous improvements were made in electrical systems, nuclear systems (improving safety and stealth), rudder and engines (improving reability and stealth).
TIT (Traitement de l'Information Tactique, "Tactical Information Processor"), a cluster of French-designed computers and serial digital bus links for intersystem communication.
DMUX21 sonar.
Capability of launching the SM 39 anti-ship missile (best known as Exocet)
Improved inertial navigation system.
Improved internal communication system - SNTI, Systme Numris de Transmissions Intrieures (Digital Internal Communication System)
Miscellaneous acoustical stealth improvements
Improved hull profile

The other Redoutable-class submarines have been modified to meet the standards of the Inflexible ("Refonte M4"). The Inflexible is to be discarded around 2008. L'Inflexible has inspired Le Soleil ne se lve pas pour nous (No sunrise for us) by Robert Merle, a 1987 semi-fictionous book in form of a romanced documentary. Inflexible

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