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Looking for a site that provides some detail in regards to the French Pacific assets, lovely sites abound but cant find info on Pacific assets. Maybe I have been to relevant sites but they are in the wrong language, damn their eyes! [:D] Almost ready to write a scen., it should be ready by, aww lets say, Xmass....... prolly well before HCCE

2 things that might help - you probably already know this but;-

1) Search on "French Polynesia" - this is usual title for the real estate.

2) Alta Vista Babel Fish can translate pretty good; and it's free!

http://babelfish.altavista.com/

EDIT: Hint, when using Babel fish, just put in a sentence at a time. You often need to mess about to get real meaning and it won't translate nouns (people, places or things) much if at all.

Still better than thumbing through a French-English dictionary though.

Cheers Mr Fingers, if I cant find something in Jinglish I might just have to go for the babel fish option. I have found some interesting sites and occasionally in the text it might be noted that this or that ship has completed a tour.... and some mention of excercises with China. I just thought there would have been a more regular Pacific Force.  Back to the probability search engine [;)]

What are you looking for Bungle, more precisely?

More precisely..... French naval assets based in the Pacific....... could even narrow this down to the western Pacific/New Caladonia. I'll leave the Tahiti region to the surfers for now [;)]

If you have information in regards to the Sino-French naval wargames (2006?) and the French units that participated that would help.

thanks

in the waiting of better, here are some links, unfortunately in french:

http://www.armees-polynesie.pf/
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/ema/decouver ... _francaise
http://www.defense.gouv.fr/ema/decouver ... _caledonie


btw, the forces are mostly a few frigates, some P400 patrol ships and some MARPAT aircafts


i'll post anything that i'll find in a language more convenient for you

cheers,

Jan

thanks jan
 
I ve spent so much time at that damn marine nationale site (which refused to run in english...... hmmmm [:D] ) looking at activites deploiements and activites operations without so much as a cracker. Lo and behold its in les forces armees [&:]  Oh well I got to give babel fish translator a damn good run.
 
btw, the forces are mostly a few frigates, some P400 patrol ships and some MARPAT aircafts
 
Yep, there doesnt seem to be any high end assets in the region at all, found a newspaper report about the down grading of presence in the Pacific re post nuclear testing, and low due to strategic importance.....  That would put a smile on the face of any 'ANW' expansionist leader in the region.  Muahahahahaaaaa!

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cheers for your help guys
 
think ive found what i was looking for (3 points if you can name that song) ....... if anyone is interested the sino-french mini excercise can be found here http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-03/16/content_315366.htm
 
i was a bit out with my timing, must have been having too much fun the last cople of years [8D]   ...its a weather thing
 
(on second thoughts make that 1 point, far too easy)

Bungle, afaik, the French Navy's (Aeronavale) Flotille 25F also operates in French Polynesia, with its HQ at Faaa airport in Tahiti. They were flying 5 Dassault Falcon Gardian aircraft between two detachments at Tahiti and Noumea.

And Scramble will show you the airbases of many nations even outside their own borders; for France they show the above mentioned 25F flotilla and some naval helo's.

Freek

P.S. never found a 'scramble-like' site for warships; sometimes I'm forced to use Google earth to look at fleet harbours!