Toulon Naval Base is home to the pinnacle of the French Navy. It gathers 70% of the nation’s fleet tonnage. A real “city within a city”, the naval base employs 23,000 workers on a daily basis.
Toulon’s harbour is exceptional: with a surface area of 1,500 hectares, three quarters of its perimeter is bordered by shores and benefits from natural protection against sea swells. An ultra strategic geographical situation which has always aroused envy – the port has survived through the centuries, withstanding sieges and major conflicts, and has been equipped throughout its history with a cutting-edge defensive system made up of 50 massive forts: the famous Toulon forts.
Constantly attacked but always capable of rising from its ashes, Toulon’s base is now more active than ever and honours its past by looking to the future through the building of fortifications and ships at the forefront of technology.
Documentary: Inside Toulon Arsenal, Bastion Of The Mediterranean
Directed by: Juliette Desbois
Production: ZED for RMC Découverte
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The game of defense and offense is like a game of tug-of-war. Once it's known, it's easy come come up with countermeasures — well other than the nuke and MAD.
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Toulon has been a French Naval base for over 400 years. Originally Roman, it was fortified first by Henry IV, then by Vauban , later by Napoleon. I remember visiting the battleships of the French Navy way back in the 1950s. The location is unique and beautiful.
Looks like the UK is sadly lacking here
Quite interesting
very interesting video of the history of this port
The west always say someone is a terrorist when in fact France occupying 7 countries in Africa and then carrying out missions in the middle east that has absolutely nothing to do with them. The terrorist is you France the French white ppl who think they also own the other side of the Mediterranean.
Toulon's base…where Napoleon made his first mark in history.
Devonport Royal dockyard, also known as Her Majesty’s Naval Base, Devonport (HMNB Devonport), is the largest naval base in western Europe. The dockyard is one of 3 operating bases in the UK for the Royal Navy. Facts matter
France is a superpower country..all of us know…france is known also of highly trained military men…….
superpower😮
american weapons…
@42:46 "This disaster was one of the darkest pages in French history." <~ Quite the contrary! The French Navy demonstrated great honor living up to their promise to scuttle if the Germans moved to seize the ships. In stark contrast to the dishonorable betrayal by Churchill attacking the French Navy for refusing to join Britain against their French oaths of service. The scuttling at Toulon is a slap in the face to Chruchill, and all of his ilk.
Aircraft carriers used to be stationned on the Atlantic coast because France had its colonies with airfields that let planes cover the Mediteraneen Sea.
Barrier works great against 100 aerial, armed drones???
Excelente
Should our Army be sharing that much information to journalists that can propagate it online for free and in English?…
Excellent doc. I’m a big nap nerd and love looking at these naval bases on Google Earth. The French are still a bunch of weenies and have it blocked on Google Earth while every other major military has their naval base open to be viewed so I’m always curious about toulon. Thanks for sharing.
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The MoD should of brought the 2 Minstrel class Carriers from the french after the deal with Russia fell through! Egypt brought them in the end for a bargain! HMS Ocean was sold for peanuts and now the RN has a gap in the fleet! I would also have the CDG over the QE class! Not just because it’s Nuclear but it’s got the E2 Hawkeye which the QE class cancelled because of the ski jump! The one lesson from the Falklands war and the MoD ignore it?
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You just expose your top secrets to your enemies, good luck with that.
The USS Cole is a DDG, not a frigate.
i think an active noise cancelling earbuds will be effective against that sound
@21:25 – its not a frigate ffs
Is basically the same size as Devonport. Only the Royal Navy don’t have a reputation for getting fuckd bloody every chance they get
Gotta lift your game on the narration, sounds like a wooden cutout. Unwatchable, a pity, I’m sure you put some work into this.
Look down..look down , don’t look ‘Em in the eye