French Carrier sails to war...

[TTmonkey]

French Carrier Charles De Gaulle sails off to war....

Anyone know what those other two large military vessels in port are? Are they building more carriers?

[anonymous-user]

I think they're Mistral Class amphibious assault ships. Their equivalent of our HMS Ocean, i.e. they carry helicopters, not fixed wing aircraft.

[ralphrj]

TTmonkey said:

Anyone know what those other two large military vessels in port are? Are they building more carriers

Mistral-class amphibious assault ships, perhaps?

[Charlie1986]

2 mistral ships in port.

[Simpo Two]

It's exactly what the enemy wants - an early chance to meet their god (the strategic failure of suicide cults). Making war with both Russia and France is pretty impressive.

[nick heppinstall]

Old Charles is really looking its age ..

[Charlie1986]

This isn't a knee jerk reaction it was due to leave this week. it was announced start of last week that it was deploying to the middle east to support on going operations.

[Richjam]

nick heppinstall said:

Old Charles is really looking its age ..

It is but at least they have one they even have aircraft to fly off it!

[nick heppinstall]

Richjam said:

It is but at least they have one they even have aircraft to fly off it!

Yeah that's true :-D

[scubadude]

Simpo Two said:

It's exactly what the enemy wants - an early chance to meet their god (the strategic failure of suicide cults). Making war with both Russia and France is pretty impressive.

What's the current record for a nation, group or person to be a war with the most nations simultaneously?

ISIS going after Al Qaeda and Iraq's titles?


At least we already have a carrier in the area for a change... HMS Cyprus.

[SpeckledJim]

scubadude said:

What's the current record for a nation, group or person to be a war with the most nations simultaneously?

Very good question!

I'll go for Germany, but that's a guess.

[Johnnytheboy]

SpeckledJim said:

scubadude said:

What's the current record for a nation, group or person to be a war with the most nations simultaneously?

Very good question!

I'll go for Germany, but that's a guess.

Nazi Germany, Revolutionary/Napoleonic France, WW2 Japan, gotta be one of them.

[Simpo Two]

scubadude said:

What's the current record for a nation, group or person to be a war with the most nations simultaneously?

ISIS going after Al Qaeda and Iraq's titles?

Not current, but Germany had about 22 countries at war with it by 1945.

[FourWheelDrift]

Germany had 31 countries fighting against it in WWI.

[AAGR]

Anarchic question - has the French carrier ever taken part in a real military action before ? I may be wrong, but it seems to have spent most of its career in port, being re-fitted, or whatever ....

[FourWheelDrift]

The War in Afghanistan and Libya.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_aircraft_carr...