Pod Damoclès

Thales Damocles - French laser designator and forward looking infrared pod, made by the Thales Group and used on military aircraft. Article “Pod Damoclès” in French Wikipedia has 15.2 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 4 references and 5 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 0.8 points.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (French) language version.

Since the creation of article “Pod Damoclès”, its content was written by 35 registered users of French Wikipedia and edited by 94 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 21 times in French Wikipedia and cited 72 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (French): #38211 in March 2017
• Global: #105961 in September 2020

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (French): #83541 in March 2011
• Global: #442999 in October 2015

There are 8 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Damocles (targeting pod)		26.5912
2	Chinese (zh) 達摩克利斯瞄準夾艙		22.4801
3	Arabic (ar) ديموقليس (جراب استهداف)		18.3078
4	French (fr) Pod Damoclès		15.1857
5	Japanese (ja) ダモクル		12.5238
6	Indonesian (id) Thales Damocles		7.3853
7	Korean (ko) 다모클레스 타게팅 포드		6.1025
8	Polish (pl) Damocles (zasobnik celowniczy)		3.4722

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Pod Damoclès" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Damocles (targeting pod)		273 655
2	French (fr) Pod Damoclès		100 586
3	Polish (pl) Damocles (zasobnik celowniczy)		9 836
4	Chinese (zh) 達摩克利斯瞄準夾艙		7 112
5	Japanese (ja) ダモクル		6 572
6	Arabic (ar) ديموقليس (جراب استهداف)		4 346
7	Indonesian (id) Thales Damocles		1 616
8	Korean (ko) 다모클레스 타게팅 포드		1 005

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Pod Damoclès" in June 2025

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Damocles (targeting pod)		1 909
2	French (fr) Pod Damoclès		463
3	Chinese (zh) 達摩克利斯瞄準夾艙		123
4	Japanese (ja) ダモクル		116
5	Arabic (ar) ديموقليس (جراب استهداف)		23
6	Polish (pl) Damocles (zasobnik celowniczy)		14
7	Indonesian (id) Thales Damocles		8
8	Korean (ko) 다모클레스 타게팅 포드		7

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Pod Damoclès" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Damocles (targeting pod)		39
2	French (fr) Pod Damoclès		35
3	Polish (pl) Damocles (zasobnik celowniczy)		6
4	Chinese (zh) 達摩克利斯瞄準夾艙		6
5	Indonesian (id) Thales Damocles		3
6	Japanese (ja) ダモクル		3
7	Arabic (ar) ديموقليس (جراب استهداف)		2
8	Korean (ko) 다모클레스 타게팅 포드		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Pod Damoclès" with the highest AI in June 2025

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Arabic (ar) ديموقليس (جراب استهداف)		0
2	English (en) Damocles (targeting pod)		0
3	French (fr) Pod Damoclès		0
4	Indonesian (id) Thales Damocles		0
5	Japanese (ja) ダモクル		0
6	Korean (ko) 다모클레스 타게팅 포드		0
7	Polish (pl) Damocles (zasobnik celowniczy)		0
8	Chinese (zh) 達摩克利斯瞄準夾艙		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Pod Damoclès" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Damocles (targeting pod)		22
2	French (fr) Pod Damoclès		21
3	Japanese (ja) ダモクル		10
4	Chinese (zh) 達摩克利斯瞄準夾艙		6
5	Arabic (ar) ديموقليس (جراب استهداف)		4
6	Korean (ko) 다모클레스 타게팅 포드		4
7	Indonesian (id) Thales Damocles		3
8	Polish (pl) Damocles (zasobnik celowniczy)		2

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic ديموقليس (جراب استهداف)
en	English Damocles (targeting pod)
fr	French Pod Damoclès
id	Indonesian Thales Damocles
ja	Japanese ダモクル
ko	Korean 다모클레스 타게팅 포드
pl	Polish Damocles (zasobnik celowniczy)
zh	Chinese 達摩克利斯瞄準夾艙

Best Rank

French: #83541 03.2011

Global: #442999 10.2015

Best Rank

French: #38211 03.2017

Global: #105961 09.2020

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