{"id":48407,"date":"2025-04-15T12:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T10:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=44516"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:54:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:54:11","slug":"aeroplane-carrier-charles-de-gaulle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/flugzeugtraeger-charles-de-gaulle\/","title":{"rendered":"Aircraft carrier off Crete - French visit to Souda Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"

The<\/strong> French aircraft carrier \"Charles de Gaulle\"<\/strong> is currently on its way back to its home port of Toulon after a four-month deployment in the Indo-Pacific. After travelling through the Red Sea and passing through the Suez Canal, it made a stopover in Souda Bay on the north side of the island of Crete.<\/p>\n

\"French
French aircraft carrier \"Charles de Gaulle\". Photo: Marine Nationale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The nuclear-powered French carrier (260 x 64 metres, 42,500 tonnes), which entered service 23 years ago, carries 22 Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft as well as Grumman E-2 Hawkeye reconnaissance aircraft for air surveillance and Eurocopter AS-565 Panther helicopters for rescue and anti-submarine warfare tasks. During its deployment off Southeast Asia, it was accompanied by a submarine and various frigates for operational security as well as other logistical ships for supply and support.<\/p>\n

France and Greece<\/h4>\n

Although you still need some consumables and spare parts even on the last few miles before the home port, the visit to Greece probably also had a tangible partner aspect: Naval Group, the leading French state-owned shipyard group, is currently building four Belh@rra-class frigates for Greece.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"New
New frigate \"Nearchos\" for Greece, launching. Photo: Naval Group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The frigate, known under the export designation Fr\u00e9gate de D\u00e9fense et d'Intervention (FDI), is also being built simultaneously for the German Navy under the class name \"Amiral-Ronarc'h\" in five examples (122 metres, 4,500 tonnes). Her armament is to consist of Aster anti-aircraft missiles in 16 cells (32 for the Greek variant), Exocet anti-ship missiles in 2 quadruple launchers, 4 torpedo tubes for submarine hunting and a 76mm multi-purpose gun.<\/p>\n

\"French
French newbuilding frigate \"Amiral Ronarc'h\". Photo: Naval Group<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Short visits promote friendship<\/h4>\n

Greece is also buying additional weapons systems from French defence companies: In addition to the 18 Dassault Rafale fighter bombers already delivered, 6 additional fighter planes are currently being manufactured for Greece.<\/p>\n

In September 2021, Greece and France signed a strategic cooperation agreement to work more closely together in the areas of security and defence. As a result, France has become Greece's largest arms supplier in Europe by far. It's nice to drop by and send a friendly greeting - just before Easter.<\/p>\n

While France has a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in the form of the \"Charles de Gaulle\", a comparable project in Germany remains unrealistic to this day. Why it will not be realised in the foreseeable future there will be no German aircraft carrier<\/strong>we explain in detail in this article<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Der franz\u00f6sische Flugzeugtr\u00e4ger \u201eCharles de Gaulle\u201c befindet sich in diesen Tagen nach einem viermonatigen Einsatz im Indo-Pazifik auf dem R\u00fcckweg in seinen Heimathafen Toulon. Nach der Fahrt durch das Rote Meer und der Passage des Sues-Kanals legte er einen Zwischenstopp ein in der Souda-Bucht auf der Nordseite der Insel Kreta. Der vor 23 Jahren in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,486,42],"tags":[2337,960,112,113,338,1852,2328,9323,5772,1015,4029,257,9324],"class_list":["post-48407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-headlines","category-news","tag-charles-de-gaulle","tag-fdi","tag-flugzeugtraeger","tag-frankreich","tag-fregatte","tag-griechenland","tag-indo-pazifik","tag-intervention","tag-kreta","tag-naval-group","tag-rafale","tag-ruestung","tag-souda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48407"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49184,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48407\/revisions\/49184"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}