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2010-11-01 Europe

Essential French Aircraft Carrier Not Seaworthy

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Posted by Anonymoose 2010-11-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 I guess KIMMIE + CHINA what AIRCRAFT CARRIER won't be around in the Yellow Sea to target.

* ION WMF > THE POSSIBILITY IS VERY GOOD: DAOYUS + OKINAWA MAY BECOME THE NEW "TAIWAN" IN US-CHINA STRATEGIC GAME IN EAST ASIA.

* SAME > CHINA TO LEASE TWO DPRK-CONTROLLED YALU RIVER ISLANDS AS FREEPORTS [Sino-DPRK FTA = SEZ-EEZ] FOR 100 YEARS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-11-01 02:23|| 2010-11-01 02:23|| Front Page Top

#2 WAFF > RADIO FREE EUROPE = MEDVEDEV VISIT TO KURILS STOKES JAPAN ROW.

POSTER = RUSS + JAPAN may still be technically at war becuz Japan deems the Russ-held Kurils/Kuriles as an integral part of its Northern Island of HOKKAIDO. i.e. EX-SOVIET, NOW RUSS MIL-OCCUPIED JAPAN???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-11-01 02:34|| 2010-11-01 02:34|| Front Page Top

#3 Amazing how French engineering know-how has turned an aircraft carrier design into a perfectly good pier.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-11-01 02:56|| 2010-11-01 02:56|| Front Page Top

#4 July 08, 2008
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln has moved from the Persian Gulf into the Gulf of Oman so its warplanes can fly missions over Afghanistan, where attacks have been rising, the U.S. military said Tuesday.

The carrier was ordered to move so it could conduct potential airstrikes over Afghanistan by flying over Pakistani airspace.

If it had remained inside the Persian Gulf, that would not have been possible since U.S. planes do not fly through Iranian air corridors.

I would have thought this was obvious...

Posted by gromky 2010-11-01 08:02|| 2010-11-01 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 Proof of God's sense of humor will be the French sending subcontracted Indian technicians to 'repair and fix' the French helicopter carriers sold to the Russians.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-11-01 09:32|| 2010-11-01 09:32|| Front Page Top

#6 Carriers are primarily useful for power projection, not for defense. Europe's interests in power projection are waining anyway.

Hopefully this is a wakeup call to the Brits on outsourcing their defense needs but I doubt it.

Posted by rjschwarz 2010-11-01 09:51|| 2010-11-01 09:51|| Front Page Top

#7 The "Chuckles" is a definite pier queen.

Posted by mojo 2010-11-01 11:25|| 2010-11-01 11:25|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe this all part of a brilliant plan to make sure that the future Islamic Republic of France does not have a functioning carrier.

Maybe we ought to be thanking them.

Posted by charger 2010-11-01 11:29|| 2010-11-01 11:29|| Front Page Top

#9 In a couple years, Disney will have a larger fleet than the EU.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2010-11-01 13:21|| 2010-11-01 13:21|| Front Page Top

#10 in her home port with a faulty propulsion system

We've lots of functioning propulsion systems here they could rent. Tow boats. And/or tug boats. They're nothing but (barely) floating propulsion systems.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-11-01 13:52|| 2010-11-01 13:52|| Front Page Top

#11 In a couple years, Disney will have a larger fleet than the EU.

Scarier, too.

Posted by gorb 2010-11-01 14:34|| 2010-11-01 14:34|| Front Page Top

#12 The De Gaulle is the prime example of a camel being a horse designed by committee : The French were having issues with large propeller design and so went with a single screw based on an older much smaller carrier design, instead of the 2 screws that the Navy was demanding. And did NOT design in the capability to add in a second screw when the propeller issues were resolved. As a result, the single screw is ALWAYS overtorqued moving the Pier, and snaps off on a regular basis. Also, the electrical systems were built NOT by the design team ship building firm, but by another French firm as a way to "spread the wealth" of French defense spending to other companies.

Posted by Shieldwolf 2010-11-01 15:23|| 2010-11-01 15:23|| Front Page Top

#13 If the Brits and French want an Aircraft carrier and they don't want a U.S. one, there is only one other country with a success in this area. Have the Japanese build you one at the Korean shipyards. They had some success in the late 1930s and early 1940s with building them.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2010-11-01 16:23|| 2010-11-01 16:23|| Front Page Top

#14 Pity, it would have been the scourge of the middle east.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-11-01 21:48|| 2010-11-01 21:48|| Front Page Top

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