The world’s only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside the United States: The Charles de Gaulle
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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France has more carriers than Russia 😀
So that everyone can realize : The Charles de Gaulle could travel 1,000 km a day for 7 years without refuelling.
We have the PANG (for Porte-Avions de Nouvelle Générations (Or next generation aircraft carrier)) as a project going on, but they won’t be ready before the 2030’s at the earliest.
Hopefully we can have at least two aircraft carriers with the next generation
WE NEED MORE!! WE NEED A STRONG SHIPBUILDING INDUSTRY! 🇪🇺
France killing it as usualÂ
Edit: it is impressive considering France isn’t a superpower and is a relatively smaller compared to superpower countriesÂ
Vive la France!
It’s kinda sexy idk.
allons zenfants modafuka
Let’s do some more for Europe. Also some nuclear submarines nuclear armed.
Doesn’t China have a CVN under construction too? [Type-004](https://www.twz.com/sea/structure-at-chinese-shipyard-may-point-to-chinas-next-aircraft-carrier-capabilities)
Just now we are really starting to appreciate that France, unlike Britain, has always focused being an independent military power. Without them we would be f’ed
I can clearly see the exhaust pipe on the stern, not buying this! /s 🤣
France already has nuclear submarines and has nuclear torpedoes (m51) which in this configuration are perhaps the most effective in the world (10 nuclear warheads per missile with an autonomous trajectory for each warhead), which fired from a stealth submarine makes interception theoretically impossible.
Hopefully, it’s not just France that will carry all the load for most of Europe, and I’m glad they’re doing it now, but all countries need to step up their defense game so that we don’t have to deal with this kind of situation ever again.
Projection has always been part of French doctrine. This is a very good example.
Whoever holds maritime dominance holes global military dominance, this is a well known fact. Europe needs to push production for 21st tech en masse. The US has proven it can’t be trusted.
Man, I never realised how switched on the French were as a Brit. We need be learning from them, joining them in this fucked up world.
Frances built 2 carriers for Russia, then Russia invaded Crimea, so France took them back. Then Russia had a little tantrum. Now they are owned by Egypt.
All of this only shows better what was France’s ability to be independant from the US
I’m on French Level 17 on Duolingo already. Suggest we all learn the language of our new European overlords. Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
https://naviesworldwide.com/navy-news/how-the-dutch-submarine-walrus-torpedoed-an-american-aircraft-carrier/?hl=nl-NL
You only need one small Dutch walrus submarine to take down a aircraft carrier and escort ships.
Unfortunately the catapult launch-system is american, and we need to learn how to make them by ourselves.
The UK has a formidable navy, with some cutting edge technology – we can hold our own don’t worry about that.
Wasn’t this the one you sent in 2021 to help Greece and Cyprus in Mediterranean? Merci Beaucoup Galloi (= French in greek).
Bless the French. I hope they fill in the intelligence negated by Trump
Basically a mobile airport.
Europe has airports in many places.
That ship is for external power projection.
This just shows that the United States has spent way to much time and money on the military industrial complex and Eisenhower was correct
And yet there is an American aircraft on the flight deck.