A Toast to The de Gaulle

April 19, 2007: For the last month, the American carrier John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and the French carrier Charles de Gaulle (R 91) operated together off the coast of Pakistan, in support of operations in Afghanistan. Both nuclear powered carriers supplied bombing and reconnaissance missions for troops in Afghanistan. Aircraft conducted touch-and-go landings on each others carriers. Thus two French Super-Etendards, two Rafales and an E-2C Hawkeye did so on the Stennis. Each day, six sailors from each carrier, went to the other and spent the day working there, and getting to know the routine. The two carriers participated in a number of training exercises, and a good time was had by all. Not only that, but the French ship carries a good supply of alcoholic beverages, something American warships have not been able to do since 1914.

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Herald1234 Simple reply. 7/29/2007 7:48:26 PM

I gave links form OFFICIAL MOD sites and you dismissed RAF AND ROYAL NAVY AS INCOMPETENT to try to prove your fact.

You have only demonstrated that you are able to write absolutely foolish things.

The fact is that MICA is superior to AMRAAM B according to my sources and close to AMRAAM C.

BTW american know nothing about MICA.

British can compare them as they have AMRAAM and have access to MICA/ASTER autodirector technology.

And they decided to base METEOR on MICA/ASTER seeker.And not a new one or US technology.

British have only integrator role on seeker.

h*tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBDA_Meteor

Seeker

The active seeker is a joint development between MBDA's Seeker Division and Thales Airborne Systems... and builds on their co-operation on the 4A (Active Anti-Air Seeker) family of seekers that equip the MICA-EM... and ASTER... missiles. Thales contributes its experience and capabilities to MBDA-led definition studies and produces four sub-assemblies representing approximately 35% of the seeker.

You have failed to demonstrate any serious flaw on MICA which is logical as you HAVE NO ACCESS to french technology.

From another thread but it illustrates what I KNOW now about you, FS.

french stratege 7/29/2007 6:44:51 PM

Militarily, the EU is dependant on NATO to conduct power projection on a large scale and that by default means the United States. Without a NATO authorized operation supported by the USA's massive global logistics infrastructure, you cannot do an operation of this magnitude. Thats by design! Your own armed forces and policy makers know this and in some cases I deal with them everyday. They would die laughing if they read these suggestions by you and FS. I do this in real time and I know that you aren't set up for this. If you wish to remain delusional along with your countryman FS then so be it. It simply highlights how biased and ignorant both of you are.

It is completley false.Our doctrine is now entirely oriented to force projection that we have practiced before USA exist (LOL).We have a vast experience as well since we project annually average 30 000 men abroad from Africa to Asia.

We have all the tools to sustain force abroad.

BTW we INVENTED logistic

In addition to Tactics and Strategy, the French invented a third military science which they called Logistique, our Logistics

www.hqda.army.mil/logweb/logistics_definitions.pdf

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displacedjim 7/29/2007 7:54:20 PM

BTW american know nothing about MICA.

Classic. Sure, nothing at all--after all, we haven't bought any, so how could we know anything about it?

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Nichevo 8/2/2007 7:27:46 PM

Dead at 152 153 comments? Say it ain't so!

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