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 ...

Designed and built by Naval Group and entering service in 2001, the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier, further to its modernization, has now entered the technological era of the 21st century.

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 ...

File photo of the Charles de Gaulle, the flagship of the French Navy. In the box, the sailboat involved in the collision with the aircraft carrier on Nov. 12, 2021.

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.

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.

On the flight deck of France's flagship aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle, which was put in service in 2001 and recently underwent an 18-month mid-life upgrade.

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 ...