Category Archives: French Navy and Military

Tempéte (French Coast Defense Ship, 1876), right center, and Redoutable (French Battleship, 1876), left center, moored off Brest navy yard, France circa the late 1870s or early 1880s. In the distance, beyond Tempéte’s stern, are a Colbert class battleship, with a Victorieuse class armored cruiser off its port side. https://ift.tt/9Cz5Wud

NH 74894: Note the French sailor in the foreground, leaning on what appears to be an old cannon partially buried for use as a bollard. The original print is in an Office of Naval Intelligence album of French warship photographs. Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Washington, D.C. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.… ReadContinue reading “Tempéte (French Coast Defense Ship, 1876), right center, and Redoutable (French Battleship, 1876), left center, moored off Brest navy yard, France circa the late 1870s or early 1880s. In the distance, beyond Tempéte’s stern, are a Colbert class battleship, with a Victorieuse class armored cruiser off its port side. https://ift.tt/9Cz5Wud”

GULF OF OMAN (Jan. 3, 2014) The French navy aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, flagship for Task Force 473, is underway with the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and the Italian navy aircraft carrier ITS Cavour (CVH 550)

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French Navy, Army Drill to Launch Helicopter Attacks From the Sea

By: Dzirhan MahadzirOctober 18, 2021 4:19 PM An MV-22 Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 263 takes off from French amphibious ship FS Tonnerre on June 28, 2019, during exercise Semper Thunder at Camp Lejeune, N.C. USNI News photo. KUALA LUMPUR – The French Army and Navy last week completed the Cormoran 21 exercise afterContinue reading “French Navy, Army Drill to Launch Helicopter Attacks From the Sea”

ITS Cavour (Italian: portaerei Cavour) is an Italian aircraft carrier launched in 2004. She is the flagship of the Italian Navy.

Service historyOn 19 January 2010, Cavour was dispatched to Haiti as part of Operation White Crane, Italy’s operation for 2010 Haiti earthquake relief.[12] This was the first mission of the aircraft carrier, where it supplemented international efforts to provide relief for the victims of the 2010 Haiti earthquake.[13] It is reported that modernization works onContinue reading “ITS Cavour (Italian: portaerei Cavour) is an Italian aircraft carrier launched in 2004. She is the flagship of the Italian Navy.”

USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) – JS Hamana (AOE 424) – FNS Prairial (F731).

PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 19, 2021) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) conducts a replenishment-at-sea with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Towada-class replenishment ship JS Hamana (AOE 424) and French Floreal-class light frigate FNS Prairial (F731). (Photo courtesy of Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force)