It's always "America this, America that" and sometimes Brittain gets a shoutout, and it's nice to see some other equipment for once. especially as a german, I'm really impressed by what a formidable force France can field on such a tight budget. mad respect

C'était génial pour moi de découvrir ce magnifique navire Français qui résume bien l'expression : "En France, on n'a pas de pétrole, mais on à des idées !!!" C'est vraiment un navire efficace et bien conçu.

I appreciate how France always does its own thin.

Awesome ship. Nice to see the French build a multi-capability ship. Nice complement to allied capabilities.

Versatility is the key to understanding French armament. An other example would be Dassault's Rafale multi purpose war plane. It is to be understood that small countries wishing to preserve autonomy over their armament can't afford the development, purchase and maintenance of very specialized equipment. The best strategy for them is to develop multipurpose materials perfectly suited to their needs with high level of integration between armed forces.

France has the second largest maritime territory in the world (10 millions square kilometers) right after the US (11 millions square kilometers) and before Australia (9 millions square kilomters), this is why the French Navy is made a priority by France to stay the largest and strongest from european countries to be able to protect that territory, with parts of it all over the world, in every ocean. Huge task for such a small country compared to giants such as the US, China, Russia, India, and this is why french engineering is of the finest. Quality has to prevail over quantity, no choice.

i must say, i went to france for becoming an engineer, after seeing this, i think i will stay and apply for Naval Group ( The corporation that made this master piece)

Thank you to our allies across the Atlantic. 🇺🇸 / 🇫🇷

Un navire très impressionnant ! Ça me rend fier d'être français !

OK just me or are the French Navy uniforms really cool

France doesn't have the biggest military budget, so they have to resort more to efficiency and ingenuity to get close of the capabilities of those who can spend way more... when designing new materials/equipment, this has a vera big influence on the engineer mindset... where some will throw money at the problem, French engineer will look for alternate solutions

France, I'm glad that you're our ally and have been our ally for a very long time, Vive La France from the USA!

I'm soo proud to be French and always was - French technology and innovation, not to forget their ingenious engineering, is top notch.

One of the best army, Air Force and navy in the planet

france is a very great independant country in th e military they can make anythng on their own and so well made , very impressive the qality of this equipment !! congrats france really !!

Wonderful and amazing vessel. Good example of French sophistication.

You need to give credit to the french : when they design weapons, they know what they are doing !

22:12 I've never seen a guy so enthusiastic about parallel parking!

Congratulations France on these superb ships, a true testament to French engineering and skill.

SO HUGE THIS MILITARY BOAT !! CONGRATS FRENCH FRIENDS !!!

I served 2 years on the predecessor of this ship in the 70's. TCD ORAGE (Storm) L9022 Same principles but of course less high tech in those days !

Viva la France... Thank you for sharing such an innovation with the world.

In France we don't have much money but we have great engineers.

I'm French, I knew these ships, but I learned a lot thanks to this video. thank you

This kind of vessel seems perfect for major modern day navy operations.

I do like this vessel for its multi role capabilities and it’s surprising that more naval forces in the world don’t have exactly the same in their inventory

Fantastic ingenuity. Congratulations France.

Never saw a documentary of a heli carrier before and this ship is a lot more than "just" a heli carrier. Great documentary, which covers so many interesting parts in detail, the ship sounds amazing with a lot of capabilities that it can cover. Surely not a ship for every country/navy, but very interesting. The Netherlands share the Karel Doorman with Germany and the ship seems to cover some of the features of the Thunder Boat, we (Germany) don't have anything close to it, but we do have a very different approach to missions abroad than the French mind you. Anyway, so much thought went into the design of this ship and experience, seems like a fantastic versatile ship. French navy can be proud of it. Thanks for the very interesting look behind the scenes, I always wondered about these ships and this documentary gives soo much more insight than your regular wiki entries of course.

Fantastic piece of engineering and technology.

The Swiss Army Knife of the French Navy. WOW, what a ship!

Outstanding vessel and congratulations to the French for building such a versatile craft. I'll wager they could even accept jump jets if need be.

Good. The world stage needs more french presence. These kind of versatile ships can project "soft power" in peace, and deliver "hard power" if it comes to that.

A European country which has 1 building of this type is already good ... 3 ... it is even better !!! Nice 👍🙏

Magnificent French Engineering! ☺

wow that's a beast...this Naval ship alone has more sea land and air power than most navies in the world!

it is a helicopter carrier, with a workshop for the maintenance of these helicopters, it is also a ship for transporting military equipment, it can carry around 40 Leclerc tanks, it can transport infantrymen or evacuate civilians in the event of an emergency. disaster like a hurricane, it is a hospital comprising 2 surgical blocks, it is a command center and conventional or satellite radio transmissions, it can balester by filling tanks in order to adapt its level of buoyancy, it can carry 2 transport catamarans of 100 tons capacity each (L-CAT), it is equipped with pods and a bow thruster, which allows it to maintain its GPS position automatically! it can also stabilize itself using rudders! he even impressed the Americans who have much larger ships!

France is very ambitious yet very cautious at the same time

Now that's called a purposeful vessel. War, Humanitarian ground whatever you say!!

Nice piece of kit - OK nothing much new (apart from the Catamaran landing vessel) but the combination of everything together is beautiful - oh how I wish we had all that back in the 60's when I was involved in such vessels!

Les Français sont capables de produire autre chose que des parfums.

I would love to see more documentaries about current and future French weapon systems. From the Charles DeGaulle aircraft carrier to modernization of the Lecrerc tank to Dassault Rafale to an awesome Cesar self propelled howitzer to French Navy's frigates. And last, but not the least, an awesome nuclear submarines, especially this new class that you're building for the Australian Navy where the basic nuclear submarine design was used as a template for the advanced AIP diesel electric submarines. They will be an awesome power projection platforms for the Australian Navy in the ever more increasingly dangerous and contested South China sea.

Wow! I've never seen anything like this. Go France!

I believe this is the same type that French built for russian navy around year 2014.

Amazing, from design to functionality. Every little thing has been thought out.

Really brilliant and what a well trained crew the French lead the way with these vessels.

My next words is a sincere compliment, I’m surprised that the thunderboat pilot can walk at all with the size of cojones needed for his/ her job

This video shows the value of having allies. This impressive vessel contains many innovations pioneered by the USA and Britain, and adds brilliant things of its own that one can bet we will adopt. No country does everything best. Working and learning together makes us all stronger.

What an exceptional piece of equipment - so versatile. Brilliant design 👌👌👏👏👏👏❤️

Vive la France !

India 🇮🇳 should purchase it, Very useful for libration of Balochistan and Sindh

What doesn't this do? I am impressed.

Une merveille d'ingéniosité et de prouesses technologiques. Fier d'être français!

Magnificent naval vessel.

As a French it is nice to see positive post about this multirole design and how France can still cope with few money to keep an acceptable military capability in diverse fields (Howitzer, Navy, Aircraft) . However the truth is we were urged to do our best with fewer budget each year which explains such "swiss knife" design is not reallly a choice but mandatory... Keeping a fully autonomous military capabilities (including own Nuclear weapons not to depend on US decision in case our Nation existence could be jeopardized ) while other European countries were still 100% counting on the US nuke umbrella led to a decline of our economical performances while others could invest in other fields all the money they did not have to invest in the army. This has created an economical competitive advantage within EU and unfair competition which partially explain German economically overperformance for decades (partially...) and finally led to anti European feelings among some workers in declining economical sectors... As a consequence it has been like a viscious circle ... fewer money ... have to struggle to keep military performance anyway ... fewer money available then... struggling more to keep a decent army ... etc... etc... . and a viscious circle decreasing trust in real European partnerships in the same time... It is a pity European nations did not decide to have same position as for civil aircraft with Airbus balancing Boeing and sometimes beating it in some aspects ... European partnerships in the military are never successful and countries always choose US equipment instead... We had some decades to be ready and able to protect ourselves against a threat for our civilization and values as we are facing right now from diverse parts of the world ... With proper European leaders which could have been a decent European capable force beside US ("beside" and not as vassal) but we have wasted this opportunity. This would have been in the US advantage too to let its main partner becoming stronger and reach a more balanced role in the Western partnership. However, as often, the US prefer friendly countries acting like vassals rather like real partners because they think keeping a dependance link is more trustable for them...I think it's a strategic mistake. They made sure by several means (example available on demand) its partner does not become too strong and too independant capable while claiming in the same time he should invest more in its own defense capabilities... Now I wonder how countries like Baltics would react if someday more and more US leaders get closer to Trump line and agree to shift from "America first" line to "America only"... (It would be by the way also a bad move from the US since current events show how much the US, alone, is struggling to cope with anti Western democratic model forces from diverse parts of the world...)

OK let me correct a major mistake here. Its not "the thunder boat". The ship is called TONNERRE which means "Thunder" in French. TONNERRE is part of the MISTRAL class. MISTRAL is the lead ship, TONNERRE is her sister ship as is DIXMUDE. There are two other MISTRAL class ships that were originally to be sold to Russia but after Russia invasion of Crimea the sale was cancelled (as punishment) and sold to EGYPT instead. These ships are called ABDEL NASSER and ANWAR SADAT. There is also a smaller version available for export called the "MISTRAL 140" for countries with smaller budgets, although there are as of yet no orders.

Can't wait for the AQUAHOLIC review!

I hope the Indian coast guard can have a smaller baby version of this for Diaster management

This video could also be named "50m of french naval engineering kicking ass"

Impressive ship indeed. Thanks for the tour! :)

For the record, this class of ship is already proven in most of its possible mission, even when it was just barely accepted into service: - evacuation from Lebanon - disaster relief after hurricane in Lesser Antilles islands - sending combat helicopters at night for raids on Libya

Strap a few tanks to the flight deck and you have a destroyer

I see SH-60H's. And the Osprey. I'm a Retired US Navy Aircrewman/Rescue Swimmer. I was always impressed that we share submarine ICBM s with the UK. But only with Great Britain.

I'm duly impressed. Thanks for this information.

good luck to her crew's 👍👍👍👍🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏 from Las Vegas

Even n it’s sailing ship designs,France has had a history of unique thinking resulting in unique designs

I was particularly happy to hear that our French friends have decided to develop a replacement for their aircraft carrier and build a new potent and larger ship that will sail the seas and keep the world order based on laws. Great news guys.... Next step is developing hypersonic missiles, from the anti ship to land attack types.. Go France, America is back and stands besides our European friends..

The UK could do with some of these types of ships as we lost the only one we had and the one in the RFA is well over 40 years old now ! Thank you for the video and thumbs up.

The royal navy need something like this

I love the humanitarian aspects, being able to pull up to a country and help them. Every neutral country of the EU should buy one or build one.

My congratulations to the producers, directors and crew who created this documentary. It is very very well done ! This was really worth the hour I spent watching it.

Viva la France! I think they should investigate winch based landing systems for their landings in bad weather. It's easy to get a helicopter on deck when it's attached to a winch ;)

How that young french army guy talks is so typcaly french The hand gestures, the moving eyes haha Nice little invasion force de la france, très bien messieurs

The French have always been incredibly dangerous warriors. The French General Marquis Layfette liberaterated the US. But they taught us well. There is nothing like the USS Gerald Ford with a couple submarine SeaWolfs and some air defense like destroyers and Zumwalts. Lucky we are allies and have been for centuries.

The us navy uses RAST gear. A weight and cable drop[s down and is captured by a skid that locks the cable and the helo can winch itself down and then rides in a track. This helps capture the helicopter in rough seas and then pulls the helo into the hangar bay on smaller ships.

Amazing vessel... French army is the unique European army able to do almost everything... but as all other European armies they're short in stocks (especially ammunitions). Unique question I would have is how to protect such a vessel? It's so big! I guess it doesn't move w/o a Destroyer, if not a submarine.

It's a pretty decent ship with some excellent features and capabilities, its only flaw is it's severe lack of defensive hardware but obviously it will never be on its own in a high threat area.

BRITAIN should invest in these ships for our Royal Marines

That is one impressive bit of kit. Kudos..

Great documentary. you really know how to keep people's attention and teach them something at the same time. well done

Smart ship. Good Job.

Pretty darn neat. Some real out of the box thinking.

Bravo au bateau, à ses marins qui le mettent en œuvre, aux ingénieurs qui l'ont conçu, à ceux qui l'ont construit et à ceux qui l'utilisent. Mais aussi félicitations au réalisateur de ce film qui permet en 50 minutes de presque tout savoir de ce magnifique "couteau suisse naval".

Great ship, flexible and well designed.

Good ship. Very flexible for multi missions.

Well the French did give us the Exocet missile, the Mirage and the Rafale. No surprise with this.

Le Citroën du mer, tres innovatif bateu, une vrai merveille.

Why translate the name of that ship : Le Tonnerre by "Thunder boat" ? it's simply the Thunder !!

The French defense establishment is almost self sufficient. This is unique in Europe. Would be helpful if it was twice as large with 300,000 active reserves ready to mobilize when the roused bear again prowls from the East.

Why do you need to translate the vessel's name ? It's "Tonnerre", not "Thunder boat". We don't say "Le navire de sa majesté la Reine Elizabeth" instead of "HMS Queen Elizabeth", nor "Navire des Etats-Unis La Nouvelle Orléans" instead of "USS New Orleans", it would be weird.

Any country that is able to build this kind of ship, prove it’s greatness.

Nice ship and well thought out 👍

I've been in a lot of ships and I say that the RMC De`Couverte was built with navy personnel in mind, because the halls and other passages are much wider and their work and living spaces less crowded.

The Army Swissnife og Boats! Great!

Très beau bâtiment fier de notre marine et d être français

Very Impressive

The French do things in a way that nobody else does, and nobody does things like the French.😊

a magnificent ship...

Great to see the 316 and 341 are still in service.

Only the french would complain about the naming in an interesting and complimentary documentary of what is a very impressive ship. We dont all talk like we are being sick im afraid. Its a great ship and Thunder Boat or whatever, good documentary. Thanks.

Amazing warship!!