Débarquement amphibie : la méthode française que personne n'avait imaginée

Amphibious Landing: The French Method No One Had Imagined. How the engineers at CNIM, a company in southern France, invented the L-CAT, a landing catamaran unique in the world, capable of competing with American hovercraft at a fraction of the cost. While the United States was spending over $100 billion on the disastrous Littoral Combat Ship program and Russia was failing to build its own amphibious vessels, France quietly developed a technology that no one has been able to copy. From the 2008 prototype to the EDA-R and EDA-S deployed from Toulon to Djibouti, this video retraces the birth of a 100% French naval innovation that has humbled the world's greatest maritime powers. Music used: Eyes of Glory - Aakash Gandhi, Duty Calls - Rod Kim. Photos: archive.org, public domain.