{"id":5329,"date":"2025-02-26T01:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=5329"},"modified":"2025-02-26T01:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T01:03:54","slug":"video-french-navy-carries-out-rare-shock-trial-on-new-frigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/?p=5329","title":{"rendered":"Video: French Navy Carries Out Rare Shock Trial on New Frigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Video: French Navy Carries Out Rare Shock Trial on New Frigate<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The French Navy has carried out a rare &#8220;shock trial&#8221; on one of its new frigates to evaluate its resilience to near-miss explosions. It is the first time that the service has performed one of these tests in years. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video released Tuesday shows that the service set off a substantial underwater explosion just off the starboard beam of the frigate FLF <em>Courbet<\/em>. Unlike the U.S. Navy, which conducts shock trials while the ship holds position, the Marine Nationale had <em>Courbet <\/em>under way at a slow bell when the explosion went off.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Exp%C3%A9rimentation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Exp\u00e9rimentation<\/a> | La r\u00e9sistance de la FLF Courbet face \u00e0 l\u2019explosion d\u2019une mine navale !????<br \/>\nCette exp\u00e9rimentation appel\u00e9e &#8220;essai de choc&#8221; a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9alis\u00e9e pour \u00e9valuer la r\u00e9sistance du b\u00e2timent et des \u00e9quipements \u00e0 une explosion importante, dans un contexte de hausse des menaces. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bG4kWfwOUI\">pic.twitter.com\/bG4kWfwOUI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Marine nationale (@MarineNationale) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarineNationale\/status\/1894424672504045915?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2025<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Marine Nationale said that the purpose of the\u00a0trial was to prepare the vessel and crew for operations &#8220;in a context of increasing threats.&#8221; The idea of the shock trial dates back to WWII, when the U.S. Navy found that near-miss explosions from naval mines could damage or disable mission-critical systems, taking the target vessel out of action &#8211; even if it managed to evade a direct hit.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Navy uses a series of up to four &#8220;shots&#8221; for each trial, typically performed with the first-in-class vessel shortly after delivery. The maximum shock intensity occurs in the third shot, and is equal to two-thirds of the maximum shock design value of the ship. The test process is expensive, typically costing tens of millions for preparation, evaluation and post-shock repairs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the past, full-ship shock trials have revealed design flaws with components that previously passed rigorous testing standards. As an example, early testing of the Flight I Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS<em> John Paul Jones <\/em>led to significant shock-hardening revisions, which were tested seven years later aboard the Flight IIA USS <em>Winston Churchill<\/em>. Though <em>Churchill <\/em>did worse overall on the test, many systems that had been revised performed much better than the first time &#8211; and the second test led to significant upgrades and QA checks on all Flight IIA hulls.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/maritime-executive.com\/article\/video-french-navy-carries-out-rare-shock-trial-on-new-frigate\">Go to maritime executive<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video: French Navy Carries Out Rare Shock Trial on New Frigate \u00a0 The French Navy has carried out a rare &#8220;shock trial&#8221; on one of its new frigates to evaluate its resilience to near-miss explosions. It is the first time that the service has performed one of these tests in years. \u00a0 Video released Tuesday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-5329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maritime-executive","tag-maritime-executive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krogragg.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}