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2010-10-17 Europe

Charles de Gaulle has been forced to return to port on day it sailed for Afghanistan - sparks...

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Posted by Water Modem 2010-10-17 01:19|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Would be nice to have some text or a summary instead of a blank link to a commonly-blocked site.

Posted by gromky 2010-10-17 01:29|| 2010-10-17 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 from a French news service
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"PARIS - A technical fault has forced France's flagship and only aircraft carrier to return to port less than a day after it set off to fight piracy and terrorism in the Indian Ocean, the navy said Oct. 14.
A spokesman said a problem was found in the insulation of an electrical cabinet in the propulsion system of the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle.

Naval spokesman Capt. Hugues d'Argentre said the nuclear-powered Charles de Gaulle would be back in its home port of Toulon later in the day and it would take a few days to carry out the necessary repairs.

Posted by lord garth 2010-10-17 01:57|| 2010-10-17 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 Oh. Exciting. I thought the propeller fell off again or something noteworthy.

Posted by gromky 2010-10-17 03:39|| 2010-10-17 03:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Gromky... where are you that "Naval OpenSource Intelligence" is a commonly blocked site?

Some peoples republic?

Posted by Water Modem 2010-10-17 03:58|| 2010-10-17 03:58|| Front Page Top

#5 Lots of work filters block common blogging sites. Helps to keep the employees from wasting too much time.

Posted by gromky 2010-10-17 04:18|| 2010-10-17 04:18|| Front Page Top

#6 Hmmm. Ima thinkrn that a planned trip to Afghanistan with an aircraft carrier has inherent flaws

Posted by Frank G 2010-10-17 09:41|| 2010-10-17 09:41|| Front Page Top

#7 Gromky: It's an AP article. Probably not a good idea to republish even a short quote.

Posted by Excalibur 2010-10-17 11:18|| 2010-10-17 11:18|| Front Page Top

#8 A problem with insulation in an electrical cabinet?

For that, they returned to port?

Wouldn't the US Navy pull out some insulation from stores and fix the problem while underway?

Posted by Steve White 2010-10-17 11:26|| 2010-10-17 11:26|| Front Page Top

#9 The De Gaulle is a product of union workmanship and is, what we in the Navy called, a "pier queen". Almost never goes to sea because of problems with the propulsion.

Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2010-10-17 11:47|| 2010-10-17 11:47|| Front Page Top

#10 A'stan is probably a good place to base the De Gaulle (can't sink there) - but how do we get it there?

Posted by Glenmore 2010-10-17 12:54|| 2010-10-17 12:54|| Front Page Top

#11 A'stan is probably a good place to base the De Gaulle (can't sink there) - but how do we get it there?
Well, along, long time ago in a country not so far away, the skies opened up and it rained. a lot. and the waters rose. Noah and his henchmen built a big boat and corralled a lot of animals in conditions that drove the evil PETA-types bonkers. when the water receded, the Ark was high centered on a big hill and all the four wheelers never did get it un stuck.
Maybe we could wait for that dreaded gerbil warming to melt the ice caps and use that flood to get the Charlie into A-stan....

Posted by USN,Ret 2010-10-17 15:01|| 2010-10-17 15:01|| Front Page Top

#12 A'stan is probably a good place to base the De Gaulle (can't sink there) - but how do we get it there?

Several thousand JATO rockets, steel beams, a welding rig, and a high speed run toward Karachi?

Posted by Pappy 2010-10-17 15:18|| 2010-10-17 15:18|| Front Page Top

#13 Raise, refurbish, and send the Yamato and Musashi!
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See "Starship Yamato" for details...

Posted by borgboy 2010-10-17 17:30|| 2010-10-17 17:30|| Front Page Top

#14 "the carrier will recover lost time at sea and its itinerary is not likely to change."

So they turned around for a quick repair since they were so close to port. Sounds reasonable to me since it will not change its arrival time on station.

Posted by crosspatch 2010-10-17 20:36|| 2010-10-17 20:36|| Front Page Top

#15 Uh, uh, AND THE INFAMOUS 1990's FRENCH
"PROPELLER-GATE" GOES ON???

Gut nuthin.

* ION NOT-ELY-N-CRUISER-USS-PITTSBURGH, PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > CHINESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER SUDDENLY CHANGES ITS SPECIFICATIONS.

ARTIC = 65,000-tonne CONVENTIONAL = OIL FIRED PLAN Carrier under construx in Shanghai may be upgraded to a 90,000-tonne NUCLEAR CARRIER, in order to accom the PLAN's new J-15 + J-10C strike aircraft; New PLAN CVN? prob won't be launched until AFTER RUSSIA'S OWN NEW NUKE CARRIER???

Lest we fergit, as far as RISING CHINA is concerned, the ability of the CPLA to overcome the NATURAL + GEOPOL BARRIERS OF THE "FIRST ISLAND CHAIN" IS A MATTER OF CHIN ETHNIC + NATIONAL + COMMIE PRIDE, + may be directly or realistically interpreted as symbolic of CHINA'S SUCCESS, OR ABJECT FAILURE AS A GLOBAL SUPERPOWER, ee POST-US SOLE SUCCESSOR.

Again, Chin sees itself as the World's FUTURE SOLE NUMERO UNO = GLOBAL EL SUPREMO, NOT AS #2, #3, ...@ETC NOR IN JOINT.

CHIN ASIA versus [nuclear]ISLAMIST ASIA.

* Also, SAME/TOPIX > AMERICA'S MILITARY GOING GREEN [USDOD desire to reduce pan-Service Fossil Fuel dependency by Year 2020].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-10-17 21:03|| 2010-10-17 21:03|| Front Page Top

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