The Clemenceau class was named after Georges Clemenceau, ... 2023 — An earlier version of this story misspelled the name of the aircraft carrier that Brazil sank. It was the São Paulo, not the ...

What You Need to Know: France's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, is preparing for a significant Indo-Pacific mission, dubbed "Clemenceau 25." Following the Italian carrier ITS ...

French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle. Reuters Launched in 1994 and commissioned in 2001, Charles de Gaulle replaced France's two Clemenceau-class carriers, Clemenceau and Foch, which were ...

The old aircraft carrier, once the navy’s flagship, is packed with asbestos. ... a Clemenceau-class carrier laid down in 1957, has not seen active service in roughly a decade.

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazil's navy said Friday night that it had carried out a "planned and controlled" operation to sink a decommissioned aircraft carrier nearly 220 miles off its coast - despite the ...

This Clemenceau-class carrier remained in service with the French Navy for nearly four decades. ... The ship’s hull was laid down in 1989, and the aircraft carrier was launched a few years later.