NOSI - Naval Open Source Intelligence: FrenchNavy

French Navy - 100 Days to Go Before Charles de Gaulle Returns to Active Duty

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:42:47 GMT

Defense Technology International - The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier came out of its dry dock in the Mediterraean port of Toulon on a beautiful August 22 dawn and has another 100 days of maintenance and upgrade at quayside before it can go back to sea.

French Navy - F-2 Rafale Pilots Train To Land and Launch From A U.S. Carrier

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:19:40 GMT

Defense Technology International - The first integrated U.S. and French carrier qualifications aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier are occurring.

French Navy - Roaming with the Roosevelt

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:11:29 GMT

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.

French Navy - French Naval Pilots Practice on USS Harry S. Truman

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 23 May 2008 08:32:53 GMT

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.

French Navy - Burma Denounces Warship

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 17 May 2008 09:25:26 GMT

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.

French Navy - Where French Naval Aviation Stands Today

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:37:20 GMT

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

French Navy - French commandos swoop after pirates free hostages

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 10:29:04 GMT

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.

French Navy - Desperately Seeking Better Quality Recruits: French Navy

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:37:25 GMT

Defense Technology International - The French navy has to recruit 4,000 men and women annually... and it's becoming tough.

French Navy - France is tracking hijacked yacht

Michael D'Alessandro — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:32:43 GMT

Angola Press - The French coastal frigate Le Commandant Bouan had been sent to monitor the luxury yacht seized, with its crew, on Friday by Somali pirates.

Associated Press - Pirates Dock French Boat in Somali Port.

French Navy - End of a Class

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 10:27:35 GMT

Defense Technology International - The French navy's last Le Redoutable class submarine has set sail for the final time

French Navy - French make serious move into Gulf

Michael D'Alessandro — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:58:25 GMT

BBC - President Nicolas Sarkozy has gone beyond France's traditional policy of selling arms to Gulf states by signing a deal with Abu Dhabi for a permanent French naval base.

French Navy - French Navy Uses Second Life to Recruit

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 11:29:44 GMT

Defense Technology International - From 29 November to 4 December a virtual frigate (which looks remarkably like the yet-to-be-built Franco-Italian FREMM) called in on Second Life which could be visited 24 hours a day and where youngsters could meet virtual sailors who would answer questions about the jobs and careers they might have if they joined the French Navy.

French Navy - Aboard the Tonnerre, Again

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 10:09:21 GMT

Defense Technology International - Another look at life aboard Tonnerre, France's new bâtiments de protection et de commandement.

French Navy - Tonnerre HLD Proves Large Naval HQ Can Be Embarked

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:26:23 GMT

Defense Technology International - NATO's Noble Midas major naval exercise in the Adriatic sea ended on 16th October and, according to Commodore Alain Hinden of the French navy who commanded the 9,400 people and 50 ships (of which just one, the submarine USS Annapolis, was from the US Navy) which took part, it all “went remarkably well,” and was proof that a large naval HQ can function from aboard a ship.

The exercise was commanded from aboard the French Navy's Tonnerre landing helicopter dock -- the new-born sister ship of the Mistral having been delivered to the navy on 1st August – the first time such a large HQ (240 computer terminals) has been assembled aboard a ship.

French Navy - Mistral's Last Sea-Trials

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:57:35 GMT

Aviation Week and Space Technology - Another look at France's new ship the Mistral, a landing helicopter dock ship.

French Navy - Aboard the Mistral

Michael D'Alessandro — Thu, 10 May 2007 09:33:58 GMT

Defense Technology International - A cruise aboard the French Navy's landing helicopter dock ship Mistral.

French Navy - French aircraft-carrier resumes its journey to India for breaking-up

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 12:07:05 GMT

Agence France Presse - A French aircraft-carrier Clemenceau, insulated with asbestos, at the centre of a court battle with environmental groups, resumed its final journey to an Indian breaker's yard yesterday

French Navy - France set to use UK carrier designs

Michael D'Alessandro — Sun, 19 Jun 2005 07:32:07 GMT

Daily Telegraph - France is set to use Britain's design for the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers to build its own carrier, paving the way for industrial co--operation between the two nations.

French Navy - French to arrive for NATO exercise

Michael D'Alessandro — Sat, 28 May 2005 11:15:14 GMT

Virginian Pilot - Nearly 3,000 French sailors and marines will arrive in Norfolk on Friday aboard the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to prepare for a multinational exercise that is the harbinger of NATO’s first rapid-response force.

French Navy - French deliver tsunami aid with panache

Michael D'Alessandro — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 11:13:21 GMT

Associated Press - Aboard the helicopter carrier Jeanne D'Arc off of Indonesia.

French Navy - French naval ships to arrive in Aceh with aid

Michael D'Alessandro — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 12:34:35 GMT

French Navy - Two French warships, the helicopter carrier Jeanne d'Arc and the frigate George Leygues, are scheduled to arrive on Friday in Aceh province to delivery humanitarian aid to the tsunami-battered town of Meulaboh, the French Embassy in Jakarta said on Thursday.