The Charles de Gaulle Aircraft Carrier in the Spotlight. The Charles de Gaulle has a crew of about 1,200, including around 80 staff, as well as the embarked air group.

Charles de Gaulle has conducted repeated operations off Afghanistan since 2001, often filling in for U.S. carriers called to other duties. She served off Libya in 2011, and has conducted ...

The French Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu, has forcefully pushed back against a parliamentary proposal to ...

Summary and Key Points: The French Navy's Charles de Gaulle (CDG) is the only nuclear-powered aircraft carrier outside the U.S. Navy's fleet. While smaller than the U.S. Nimitz and Ford classes ...

A U.S. Navy pilot went aboard Charles de Gaulle with the C-2A Greyhound to document flight ops aboard ‘The Only Foreign Aircraft Carrier We Can Land On’. “I filmed this video in 2016 when my ...

European NATO members have projected naval power into the Indo-Pacific through aircraft carrier deployments in recent years, ...

French aircraft carrier The Charles de Gaulle docks at Subic Bay port, a former U.S. Naval base northwest of Manila, Philippines, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025.

Eastern Mediterranean Sea, Nov. 25, 2016: A sailor checks ordnance on the wing of a Rafale M fighter-bomber prior to flight operations onboard the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.

French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. Reuters Launched in 1994 and commissioned in 2001, Charles de Gaulle replaced France's two Clemenceau-class carriers, Clemenceau and Foch, which were ...

It will have taken 2000 workers working 4 million hours, 1.3 billion Euros, and thousands of trials at sea to make the Charles de Gaulle fit for the future.

French sailors stand on the flight deck of the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier. (Ludovic Marin/POOL/AFP via Getty Images ...

The Charles-de-Gaulle aircraft carrier will deploy under NATO command for the first time for mission in the Mediterranean intended to show France’s commitment to the alliance, notably in the ...