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Yeah...the French can teach the British their proud national heritage of surrendering when things get tough.
"..Trials and technical problems
Charles de Gaulle entered sea trials in 1999. These identified the need to extend the flight deck to safely operate the E-2C Hawkeye. This operation sparked negative publicity, however, as the same tests had been conducted on both Foch and Clemenceau when the F-8E(FN) Crusader fighter had been introduced. The 5 million francs for the extension was 0.025% of the total budget for Charles de Gaulle project.
On February 28, 2000, a nuclear reactor trial triggered the combustion of additional isolation elements, producing a smoke incident.
During the night of 9 November–10 November 2000, in the Western Atlantic, en route toward Norfolk, Virginia, the port propeller broke and the ship had to return to Toulon to replace the faulty element. The investigations that followed showed similar structural faults in the other propeller and in the spare propellers: bubbles in the one-piece copper-aluminium alloy propellers near the center. The fault was blamed on the supplier, Atlantic Industries, which had already gone bankrupt. To make matters worse, all documents relating to the design and fabrication of the propellers had been lost in a fire. As a temporary solution, the less advanced spare propellers of Clemenceau and Foch were used, limiting the maximum speed to 24 knots (44 km/h) instead of the contractual 27 knots (50 km/h). This did not affect air operations.
On March 5, 2001, Charles de Gaulle went back to sea with two older propellers and sailed 25.2 knots (47 km/h) on her trials. Between July and October, Charles de Gaulle had to be refitted once more due to abnormal noises, as loud as 100 dB, near the starboard propeller, which had rendered the aft part of the ship uninhabitable.
On November 8, 2001, a sailor performing a routine maintenance task lost consciousness due to a toxic gas leak. A non-commissioned officer attempted to rescue him and collapsed as well. They were immediately rescued by the on-board medical team and sent to Toulon Hospital. Both survived..."
The Royal Navy is doing the French a favor.
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I don’t see how this could possibly work.
Blue/Gold Teams for a carrier?
When the Brits get her back after a French deployment they’ll have to roll down the windows and air her out.
I should not have said that...
Maybe the two countries could share a carrier and have a mixed crew. An English captain who speaks no French, and a French helmsman who speaks no English.
I think it is a great idea! The English can use the forward gears to get it to France, and the French can use the reverse gears to get it back to England. Each doing what they do best. ;-)
But sharing The development, engineering, tooling and construction costs could work.
A great deal of the cost of a new class is borne before the first keel is laid. Having a common class shares such costs
Note that several nations shared in the development costs for the joint strike fighter aircraft.
so... the brits get it mon, wed, fri and every other sunday and the frogs tues, thurs, sat and every other sunday???