The Giffard-class were a series of SFR airships built shortly before the end of the Nova Evropan wars, and one of few successful airship classes developed in the Sixth French Republic.
At this stage, while the war was almost over, remnants of the old Nova Evropan citizen military who refused to accept defeat to racial inferiors were still carrying out attacks and kidnappings within occupied territory and still held on to isolated bastions with limited production capabilities. In this sort of war, it was thought that the high endurance of airships could play a large role in forming an early warning system against such attacks, and their quieter, slower nature would make them a better fit at finding their still-hidden bases. While generally successful thanks to it's low cost and a high stability that made it able to be used as a commanding aircraft and in civilian roles, airships in general would lose out to the burgeoning rotary-wing aircraft developed post-War in the SFR.