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51 revista Latinaero Number 4 - 2012
HQ during a pre-Euronaval
conference. It is not a widely
known fact, but France
possesses the second largest
Exclusive Economic Zone
(EEZ) in the world after that of
the USA.
In truth, due to its nume-
rous Overseas departments
and territories scattered
on all oceans of the planet,
France has an EEZ covering
11,035,000 km2 (4,260,000
square miles), just behind
the EEZ of the United States
(11,351,000 km2 / 4,383,000
square miles). The EEZ of
France covers approxima-
tely 8% of the total surface
of all the EEZs of the world,
whereas the land area of the
French Republic is only 0.45%
of the total land area of the
Earth! By all means, this situa-
tion represent a big challenge
inherited from the past for a
small and declining country
like France. By comparison,
a country like Brazil which
is ffteen times the size of
France, only has an EEZ which
ranks as the twelfth in the
world covering just 3,660,995
km2. Amusingly enough, Por-
tugal (with Madeira and the
Azores) has a larger EEZ than
Brazil, which is only second in
South America after Chile!
 Na praia de Fort Story, Virginia, um hovercraft LCAC da US Navy está pronto
para desembarcar veículos do Exército Francês: caminhões Renault GBC 180, blin-
dados de transporte de pessoal VAB e um único Panhard VBL.
At rest on the Fort Story beach, Virginia, A U.S. Navy LCAC (or Landing Craft Air
Cushion) is about to discharge a load of French Army Renault GBC 180 trucks and
VAB armoured personnel carrier and a single Panhard VBL scout. © J.-M. Guhl
 A Marinha Francesa introduziu
seu novo veículo de desembarque,
o EDAR, durante o "Bold Alligator
12". Concebido e construído pelo
CNIM, como L-CAT ou catamarã de
desembarque, o EDAR se tornou o
principal veículo de desembarque
usado a bordo dos BPC atualmente.
The French Navy introduced its
new EDAR beaching craft during
“BA12”. Conceived and built by
CNIM, as the L-CAT or landing
catamaran, the EDAR is now the
prime landing craft used onboard
the Mistral-class LHDs. It carries
more or less the same load as the
U.S. Navy LCAC. © J.-M. Guhl
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