Posted on 10/31/2010 11:00:28 AM PDT by Nachum
The French aircraft carrier which is set to play a key role in defending Britain over the next decade has broken down. As President Nicolas Sarkozy prepares to use a London summit this week to announce that RAF jets will fly from the carrier Charles de Gaulle, his naval chiefs have told him that she is no longer seaworthy. ‘She is meant to be heading to Afghanistan but is instead in her home port with a faulty propulsion system,’ said a French Navy source.
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Rename it the Fatima and sell it to Iran
“Did they check the below deck screen door?”
Simple fix...use the white flags to cover the screen doors. Problem solved.
Is this the same one that lost its screw on the initial sea trials...and then later discovered that the flight deck had to be extended before the planes assigned could land?
If I remember correctly, a screw(propeller) fell off her while under way a few years ago too.
No warm fuzzy feeling about her from my point of view!
Jack
What threat would the Brits face over the next ten years that would require them to have their aircraft on a French carrier? I highly doubt the Russians will want to play in the next 10 years. If I were the British MoD I would shelve this plan and just invest in more air force aircraft, and put what money is left into the submarines that are still working.
Second....the reinforced bullet proof windows in the tower have frosted ....so they can't see where they are going even if they knew.
finally the carrier fleet is accompanied 24/7 but several tug boats.
The charles de gaulle is going to make a terrific artificial reef someday.
As always, France, there whenever she needs you
It looks like the next war is going to be fought tossing moth balls back and forth....;-)
U.S. sailors call it "The Crippled Charlie"
What it was made in China or Russia. Put it in water and this ship will disintegrate in 6 months. The French Navy, not to good anymore. Probably launches a plane and the ship goes backards for 12 miles.
I have a great idea, France can give it to Obama. Obama will rename it the USS Obama. He is really angry that there are aircraft carriers named after many people except him. Gee he wants the Native Americans in South Dakota to give him land so he can have a Monument dedicated to him that overshadows Mount Rushmore and that Indian Chief to. S
It doesn't go fast enough in reverse...
Why does the New French Navy have glass bottom ships?
So they can see teh Old French Navy ships.
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Oh, and that French company that made the propellers - it had a mysterious fire that destroyed a lot of the paperwork after investigations were announce...
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Kind of reminds me of the fire last August down in Houston that destroyed all the voting records from the electronic voting machines right after it was discovered that SCIU/Acorn had registered over 20,000 fake voters. For some reason the fire alarm and sprinklers didn't work.
Of course, coming to our aid presupposes the ability to get there...
I like the French. I owe them a great deal. If they hadn't thrown my family out in the 17th century, I might have been born there!
I don't depend on them.
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