In a tweet posted on December 15, the French Directorate General for Armament (DGA) announced it had taken delivery of the 10th ATL2 modernized to standard 6 for the Navy, out of the 18 planned by the Military Programming Law LPM 2019-2025.
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The Atlantique 2 (or ATL 2) from Bréguet - Dassault Aviation is a long-range maritime patrol aircraft, endowed with endurance and astonishing maneuverability, when it comes to flying close to water chasing a submarine. (Picture source: DFA)
The renovation concerns the combat system: integration of new technologies, treatment of obsolescence, and restoration of performance to the highest level. This renovation improves the ability of ATL2s to deal with modern threats in the context of strategic deterrence missions or engagements against submarines, fast craft, and land vehicles.
The Atlantique 2 (or ATL 2) from Bréguet - Dassault Aviation is a long-range maritime patrol aircraft, endowed with endurance and astonishing maneuverability, when it comes to flying close to water chasing a submarine. This device is the direct heir of the Breguet Atlantic. It uses its general shapes, with a characteristic bilobed fuselage that can accommodate a large pressurized cabin above a long weapons bay. The Atlantique 2 also inherits from its predecessor a reliable and economical engine which gives it a maximum endurance of 14 hours of flight.
The ATL2 is one of the few aircraft in service in the world designed specifically for anti-submarine warfare. The Atlantique 2 is an aircraft dedicated to the air-sea domain, with a very high adaptability for air-land missions.
Tough and easy to handle, capable of working alone or in cooperation, whether with a naval force, a submarine, other aircraft or ground troops, it has high-performance means for collecting and processing information and the armament allowing him to engage the buildings, the enemy submarines. It is also capable of participating in power projection missions and delivering firepower to ground targets.
Providing assistance to the units of the Naval Action Force (FAN) and the Strategic Oceanic Force (FOST), the crews of the 21F flotillas are particularly trained in these areas of combat and are able to intervene immediately upon request from the authorities. operational. Accustomed to working in a joint and combined context, ATL2 crews regularly take part in international exercises, whether they take place in a NATO, European or multinational context.
