Defense Technology International - France is deploying the nuclear attack submarine SNA L’Amethyste on a two month deployment to the U.S. east coast and Caribbean. It will operate there as part of the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier battle group.

Defense Technology International - Where do French naval pilots practice taking-off and landing on an aircraft carrier while theirs is in the shipyard? Answer: borrow others' at every available opportunity...or land on one sketched out on a landing strip. So, before the USS Harry S. Truman sails out of French waters after docking in the Mediterranean port of Marseilles, since last Thursday two Rafales and one Hawkeye had some practice runs landing and taking off from its flight deck yesterday.

Bangkok Post - The Burmese military junta showed signs of paranoia on Friday, denouncing a French naval ship packed with 1,500 tonnes of food aid, with aircraft capable of delivering it, as a "warship" standing off its coast. France said a demand to deliver the aid through Rangoon airport was nonsense.

Defense Technology International - The state of France's naval air fleet.

Reuters - French commandos seized six pirates in Somalia on Friday during a daring helicopter raid launched shortly after the bandits had released the 30-strong crew of a luxury yacht hijacked last week.