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The ship, commissioned in 2001, is the tenth French aircraft carrier, the first French nuclear-powered surface vessel, and the only nuclear-powered carrier completed outside of the United States Navy. She is named after French president and general Charles de Gaulle. The ship carries a complement of Dassault Rafale M and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft ...
List of aircraft carriers of France. The following is a list of aircraft carriers of France. Fifteen aircraft carriers have served the navy or been proposed since the 1910s. As of 2024, one French carrier— Charles de Gaulle (R91)—remains in service of the French government.
Future French aircraft carrier. The French Navy is actively planning for a future aircraft carrier and new flagship. It is known in French as Porte-avions de nouvelle génération (PA-NG) for 'new generation aircraft carrier'. [2][3] Construction of the PANG is expected to begin around 2031 and it is projected to enter service in about 2038; [4 ...
By Andrew Gray. ABOARD THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER CHARLES DE GAULLE, off southern France (Reuters) - NATO on Friday launched one of its biggest naval deployments since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, with ...
The Clemenceau-class aircraft carriers are a pair of aircraft carriers, Clemenceau and Foch, which served in the French Navy from 1961 until 2000. From 2000 to 2017, one ship served with the Brazilian Navy as the São Paulo. The Clemenceau class was France's first successful aircraft carrier design after World War II. It was the backbone of the ...
This is a list of aircraft carriers which are currently in service, under maintenance or refit, in reserve, under construction, or being updated. An aircraft carrier is a warship with a full-length flight deck, hangar and facilities for arming, deploying, and recovering aircraft. [ 1 ] The list only refers to the status of the ship, not ...
Throughout the course of the aircraft carrier's lengthy career, it participated in the majority of French naval operations. From 12 January to 5 February 1962, Clemenceau participated in a NATO exercise known as BigGame with the United States Sixth Fleet in the western Mediterranean as an anti-submarine aircraft carrier.
French aircraft carrier Verdun. Categories: Aircraft carriers by country. Naval ships of France. French Naval Aviation. Hidden category: Commons category link is on Wikidata.