Many maritime pundits these days express the view that aircraft carriers are doomed. The ships are too large, too vulnerable, and increasingly irrelevant, they say. Others, however, opine that with their long range, sustainable high speed, endurance, hitting power, and surveillance and command and...
Russian naval assets are very active offshore in support of Moscow’s Ukrainian campaign. NATO has responded with a large-scale deployment of its naval forces. Since the ..
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The major build-up of Russian land forces around Ukraine has received a great deal of media attention, but the accompanying accumulation of warships of the Russian Federa ..
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French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle deploys on Feb. 1 2022. French Navy Photo
The French Navy’s Charles de Gaulle Carrier Strike Group left today for its Clemenceau 22 deployment, which will last until April and take the CSG to the Mediterranean.
Task Force 473 is built around aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R 91) and includes European Union, NATO and French partner nations during the deployment. French Navy ships in the task group along with Charles de Gaulle are destroyer FS Forbi...
https://news.usni.org/2022/02/01/french-carrier-charles-de-gaulle-leaves-for-2022-deployment
France-based defence conglomerate Naval Group very recently announced that Paris has approved the construction of an aircraft carrier to be powered by two nuclear ..
An industrial partnership of French companies consisting of shipbuilders Naval Group and Chantiers de l’Atlantique, Dassault Aviation, and nuclear reactor ..
An artist’s impression of PANG (Porte Avion Nouvelle Generation, or next-generation aircraft carrier).
French President Emmanuel Macron today officially green-lighted the construction of a new nuclear-powered aircraft carrier as part of the PANG program. The future flagship of the French Navy is intended to replace the existing FS Charles de Gaulle (R91) aircraft carrier around 2038.
The announcement was made during Macron’s visit to French nuclear power company Framatome, which designs and...
Civil war in Libya, and a complex web of contested, oil and gas prospecting-linked, maritime territorial claims, encompassing EEZs, maritime zones and continental ..
Η γαλλική κυβέρνηση θα επανεξετάσει τα σχέδια για την κατασκευή ενός τέταρτου τερματικού σταθμού στο αεροδρόμιο του Παρισιού «Charles de Gaulle» λόγω της κρίσης του κορονοϊού, δήλωσε ο υπουργός Μεταφορών Jean-Baptiste Djebbari.
Η γαλλική κρατική εταιρεία διαχείρισης αερολιμένων ADP σχεδιάζει να κατασκευάσει έναν τέταρτο τερματικό σταθμό στο CDG-Roissy με χωρητικότητα 35 έως 40 εκατ. επιβατών ετησίως, εν μέσω έντονων διαμαρτυριών από ακτιβιστές και τοπικούς φορείς, ενώ πλέον και η πτώση της...
https://www.naftikachronika.gr/2020/08/01/ta-pano-kato-sto-aerodromio-charles-de-gaulle/
The crew of Charles de Gaulle wear masks while underway. French Navy Photo
Following the announcement of suspected COVID-19 cases among aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle’s (R91) crew, a medical team was sent on board. The tests it carried out confirm fifty positive cases of COVID-19 on board.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) issued an initial statement mentioning 40 suspected COVID-19 cases two days ago, on April 8.
The medical team dispatched to the Charles de Gaulle arrived via NH90 NFH...
https://news.usni.org/2020/04/10/french-navy-50-covid-19-cases-aboard-carrier-charles-de-gaulle