French Carrier Strike Group Begins 2021 Deployment

French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle sets on Feb. 21 2021. French Navy Photo

The French Navy’s (Marine Nationale) carrier strike group set sail on Sunday for a four-month operational deployment called Clemenceau 21.

Aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R 91) and its escorts will operate in the Eastern Mediterranean for several months before sailing to the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf and then returning home to France in June. A focus of the Clemenceau 21 mission will be the fight...

https://news.usni.org/2021/02/23/french-carrier-strike-group-begins-2021-deployment

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