The Charles de Gaulle remains the backbone of France’s sea-based power projection strategy. W hen it comes to power ...

France sold Foch to Brazil in 2000 ... it was the world's oldest commissioned aircraft carrier”. “In the better part of two decades that the flattop had flown the Brazilian flag, she had ...

Aircraft carriers still provide mobile airfields that ... the failed effort to rehabilitate the Sao Paulo (the former French Foch), although Brazil’s acquisition of the former HMS Ocean means ...