{"id":6473,"date":"2019-07-13T11:11:40","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T06:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6473"},"modified":"2019-07-13T11:11:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T06:11:40","slug":"france-launches-new-nuclear-powered-attack-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6473","title":{"rendered":"France launches new nuclear-powered attack submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A vast, 325 foot behemoth of black steel, the Suffren was launched at a dry-dock ceremony in the northern port of Cherbourg.<\/p>\n<p>President Emmanuel Macron on Friday launched the first of a new fleet of nuclear-powered attack submarines that aims to ensure French naval superiority in the coming decades.<\/p>\n<p>Built by French shipbuilder Naval Group for the French navy, the Suffren is a Barracuda-class nuclear attack submarine designed to replace the Rubis-class submarines which have been in service since the 1980s.<\/p>\n<p>French Defence Minister Florence Parly was there alongside Australian counterpart Linda Reynolds. Australia inked a deal in February to buy 12 conventionally-powered attack-class submarines from Naval Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vast, 325 foot behemoth of black steel, the Suffren was launched at a dry-dock ceremony in the northern port of Cherbourg. President Emmanuel Macron on Friday launched the first of a new fleet of nuclear-powered attack submarines that aims to ensure French naval superiority in the coming decades. Built by French shipbuilder Naval Group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1366,31,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6473"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6476,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6473\/revisions\/6476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}