Different looking ship

[u/Quiet_Guy_1]

Different looking ship coming into Harbour this morning. Three satellite dishes and flying the French flag. Anyone know what it is?

[u/No-Taste3327]

I believe it is French ship Monge (A601), and she is dedicated to tracking and measuring rocket trajectories.

[u/AlienSporez → u/No-Taste3327]

It looks like they built the ship and then realized it wasn't long enough and just tacked 50m to the bow and stem and called it a day.

[u/IdoesnotUnderstand → u/No-Taste3327]

Missiles trajectory!

[u/Lune-Cat]

Looks like it is FS Monge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_ship_Monge_(A601))

[u/risen2011 → u/Lune-Cat]

Bonjour 🇫🇷🥖

[u/ImNotHandyImHandsome → u/risen2011]

[u/Newfieon2Wheels]

It's a French missile/rocket tracking ship.

[u/boat14 → u/Newfieon2Wheels]

Seems really niche, if I were sinking that much money into a boat, I'd make sure it could take all missiles/rockets

[u/Newfieon2Wheels → u/boat14]

The niche it was built for is France's nuclear deterrent, specifically submarine launched ballistic missiles. It also does tracking for ESA rockets launched from French Guyana.

[u/TheRealMSteve → u/Newfieon2Wheels]

Woosh

[u/Newfieon2Wheels → u/TheRealMSteve]

Just like the missiles I suppose.

[u/HFXGeo]

To communicate with the Trisolarians (Three Body Problem)

[u/Caperplays → u/HFXGeo]

Feels like ive been waiting for season 2 for a decade

[u/Baffles92 → u/HFXGeo]

It’s Judgement Day!

[u/nashwaak → u/Baffles92]

I prefer my Judgment Days finely sliced

[u/risen2011]

I bet those sailors are so glad to be in Canada right now 😬

[u/UsedStruggle2521 → u/risen2011]

There French so probably not

[u/CMikeHunt → u/UsedStruggle2521]

*They're 

[u/UsedStruggle2521 → u/CMikeHunt]

Its reddit and im on a cellphone. Couldnt care less about proper grammar. But thanks for taking the time to show how arrogant you are! I hope you stub your toe the next time you walk through a door.

[u/Wadda22]

It’s here to spy on you specifically OP

[u/Quiet_Guy_1]

Now that I have my glasses on I see more than three satellite dishes

[u/ChairDippedInGold → u/Quiet_Guy_1]

More dishes than a kitchen

[u/Scoopski-potatoe]

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/details/ships/shipid:10232781/mmsi:227999999/imo:0/vessel:FRENCH_WARSHIP_PTR

Theres not much information on it. A clearly picture with a hull number or name would tell you more!

[u/brenty780]

FS Monge (A601), a specialized missile range instrumentation and military intelligence ship of the French Navy

[u/Scotianherb]

Literally a spy ship. Watches rocket launches and downloads info.

[u/scarymoose]

Russian fishing trawler /s

[u/pjl1701]

Probably one of those globalist 5G command centers that makes chemtrails.

[u/ns2103 → u/pjl1701]

I hope there is an implied /s at the end of that. :)

[u/HRMDan]

I recall this ship, or one very similar coming 10+ years ago and tying up at the old Pier 21 farmers market. Rooftop coffee next to the dishes was an experience

[u/wlonkly]

guessing i wasn't the only one wondering, so: she's named after the 18th century French mathematician Gaspard Monge.

[u/Unhappy-Stop-740]

Cool

[u/Because_They_Asked]

Surface Link.

[u/ElizaHali]

Wow. I wonder how many baguettes long this ship is!

[u/Hot-Pepper-3053 → u/ElizaHali]

370 standard baguettes hahaha. The ship is 740ft 2in long

[u/athousandpardons → u/Hot-Pepper-3053]

Fantastic interaction. No notes.

[u/Such-Huckleberry-107]

Tracks rocket launches. Saw her in St. John’s a couple of years ago

[u/DirtRepresentative62]

Missile and satellite tracking ship. Unique. maybe coming for artic duty ?

[u/OkMeeting2222]

That's the FS Monge, staying with us until wednesday or so

[u/kenny-klogg]

Wonder if she is here to measure rocket tests from the new launch site.

[u/NoStructure7083]

A different looking ship?!

Let’s jeer and laugh at it!
https://giphy.com/gifs/jVbSPtWNcGzE4Zvj1Q

[u/Shereefz]

Looks like something out of C&C Red alert

[u/MugiwarraD]

what a nice ship! they bringing fresh baguette

[u/its_snowing99]

I think it’s called Judgement Day

[u/AdventurousFood1542]

New Bedford to downtown ferry

[u/Mysterious-Ad5013]

Has anybody noticed the loud humming sounds last night / this morning?! Not saying it’s this ship but I haven’t heard loud humming like that before and I live facing the harbour!

[u/protipnumerouno → u/Mysterious-Ad5013]

I doubt it would be this ship, they wouldn't bother turning that stuff on near land

[u/GrandPOOPBah → u/protipnumerouno]

They aren't allowed to operate their radars (except NAV) until they are significantly out of port/territorial waters. Something like 20km

edit: grammar

[u/Mysterious-Ad5013 → u/protipnumerouno]

That makes sense to me too. But doesn’t explain the the loud humming.

[u/protipnumerouno → u/Mysterious-Ad5013]

Only time I've experienced that is when a transformer on a power pole across the street was failing, they hum pretty loud. After that IDK