Alouette 3 Marine
Channel: Dominique Mesgouez
Date: 2023-04-30

Test des options treuil de l'Alouette 3 Taog version Marine pedro.
The Naval Air Force11 has ordered thirty-seven SA-316Bs, SA-316B VSVs and SA-319Bs (rescue at sea, liaison, training of onboard crews, ASM warfare). The first SA-316Bs were assigned to the 20S squadrons (Saint Raphaël 1962-1991), 22S (recreated in 1964 at Lanvéoc-Poulmic which notably supplied the PEDRO detachments of the French aircraft carriers then based in Brest), 23S (Saint- Mandrier 1962-1999 which notably supplied the PEDRO detachments to the aircraft carriers Foch and Clemenceau then based in Toulon). In 1972 the 22S received the SA.316B VSV to train crews, thus becoming in 1976 the ESHE (School of Specialization on Embedded Helicopters). The arrival in 1974 of the SA-319B equipped with two Mk-46 torpedoes made it possible to form the ASM 34F (Saint Raphaël 1974 then Lanvéoc-Poulmic) and 35F (Saint-Mandrier 1979, Lanvéoc-Poulmic 1979-1998) combat flotillas, Saint-Mandrier 1999-2003, Hyères-Le Palyvestre) making the Alouette III the first ASM combat helicopter to embark on Tourville type frigates. The ASM missions were then taken up within naval aviation by the WG-13 Lynx and AS-565 Panther (the Alouette IIIs of the 34F flotilla were definitively replaced in 1980 by the WG-13 Lynx and the missions of the 35F flotilla evolve from 1991 towards support and rescue being recreated in 1999 by the merger of the 33F flotilla and the 23S squadron). The PEDRO and SAR missions are then gradually taken over within the units by the SA-365F Dauphin Pedro and AS-365N Dauphin SP, thus confining respectively the last Alouette IIIs of the 35F flotilla and the 22S squadron to support and training. 13 SA-319s still in service in naval aviation in 2016. July 2019 marked the last flight of the SA316Bs in naval aviation. In 2020, only one, registered 997 of Escadrille 22S, has a Thales OMERA ORB-3212.13 search radar. The last operational boarding of an Alouette III on a French Navy ship will take place in the first quarter of 2022, aboard the Marne. The withdrawal of the 8 copies, 5 of which are still in active service, is planned14 on December 9, 202215.(Wikipedia)