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2015-02-24 Terror Networks

French Carrier Joins Fight as U.S. Reviews Anti-Jihadist Effort

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Posted by trailing wife 2015-02-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11135 views ] Top
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#1 Out of drydock at last! I'm gonna miss Marsielle!

Posted by Raj 2015-02-24 00:17|| 2015-02-24 00:17|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL, carrying two kinds of strike aircraft? How very 1982.

Posted by Shipman 2015-02-24 06:26|| 2015-02-24 06:26|| Front Page Top

#3 at least it's there

Posted by Frank G 2015-02-24 07:21|| 2015-02-24 07:21|| Front Page Top

#4 @Shipman. Nope. The Rafale is a high-performance fighter. The barely supersonic (Mach 1.3) is the attack aircraft.

BTW while the SuperHornet is able to carry a payload as big as the A6's I wonder what a SuperA6 with a modern powerplant would be able to carry. That and being more able at flying slow.

Posted by JFM 2015-02-24 09:22|| 2015-02-24 09:22|| Front Page Top

#5 However I admit you have the right to wonder why the CDG is carrying more fighters than attack aircreaft. In fact the Rafales are there for advertising since France has been trying to sell it for twenty years without any success for now. Don't know why since AFAIK it is a fine plane. Perhaps it came at the wrong moment: after the end of cold war and before the "stealth revolution".

Posted by JFM 2015-02-24 09:41|| 2015-02-24 09:41|| Front Page Top

#6 @JFM: the superlawndart might be able to carry the same weapons load as the Skypig, but without the many drop tanks it has a very short range. The A6f/g would have had the 5 bomb stations 2 missile pylons and either the -408 version on the J52 or the F404 engines. low and slow and all weather

Posted by USN, Ret. 2015-02-24 10:40|| 2015-02-24 10:40|| Front Page Top

#7 In fact the Rafales are there for advertising since France has been trying to sell it for twenty years without any success for now.

The Egyptians are considering them; no doubt the Gulf States are also having second thoughts about tying themselves to a "fundamentally transformed" U.S.

Posted by Pappy 2015-02-24 12:34|| 2015-02-24 12:34|| Front Page Top

#8 JFM the LOL was ironic since the USN has bet the wad on the F-18.

Posted by Shipman 2015-02-24 14:00|| 2015-02-24 14:00|| Front Page Top

#9 About USN's one plane fits all policy in France we says "Good for everything, good for nothing"

Posted by JFM 2015-02-24 14:07|| 2015-02-24 14:07|| Front Page Top

#10 The Entendards should be there for air to air fuel refueling of Rafales, it is also possible that remains also some recon version, but i doubt.

Posted by Lionel Thoth9784 2015-02-24 14:36|| 2015-02-24 14:36|| Front Page Top

#11 OTOH WORLD MILITARY FORUM > [Sputnik News] NATO-EU HAS NO MONEY, MILITARY REQUIREMENT TO BUY EX-RUSSIA "MISTRAL" AMPHIBIOUS CARRIERS FROM FRANCE.

Russia still proceeding wid unilater building = "reverse-engineering" its own MISTRAL-STYLE CARRIERS.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-02-24 21:05|| 2015-02-24 21:05|| Front Page Top

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