{"id":4377,"date":"2018-10-25T19:42:31","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4377"},"modified":"2018-10-25T19:42:31","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T19:42:31","slug":"france-begins-deliberations-on-new-aircraft-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/25\/france-begins-deliberations-on-new-aircraft-carrier\/","title":{"rendered":"FRANCE BEGINS DELIBERATIONS ON NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/CDG.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4378\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/CDG-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/CDG.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/CDG-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/CDG-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/CDG-560x372.jpg 560w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/CDG-260x173.jpg 260w, https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/10\/CDG-160x106.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: Reuters<\/p>\n<p>France will make a decision on the replacement of its flagship aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle at the start of 2020, its armed forces minister said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The carrier has been in service since 2001 but Paris is looking to build a vessel that would take into consideration expected technological advances post-2030 and be capable of carrying a planned new Franco-German fighter jet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Charles de Gaulle will need a successor,\u201d Florence Parly said in a speech at a defence exhibition in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first step, which starts today, is the study phase to determine what and how we want our future aircraft carrier to be. We have given ourselves 18 months,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Three other Western aircraft carriers have been built since the Charles de Gaulle was first deployed. The U.S. Navy\u2019s Gerald R. Ford and America, and the British Royal Navy\u2019s Queen Elizabeth, which cost about 3.1 billion pounds ($4.03 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Read more at: https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-france-military\/france-begins-deliberations-on-new-aircraft-carrier-idUKKCN1MX1CE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Reuters France will make a decision on the replacement of its flagship aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle at the start of 2020, its armed forces minister said on Tuesday. The carrier has been in service since 2001 but Paris is looking to build a vessel that would take into consideration expected technological advances&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/10\/25\/france-begins-deliberations-on-new-aircraft-carrier\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">FRANCE BEGINS DELIBERATIONS ON NEW AIRCRAFT CARRIER<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-industry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4379,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4377\/revisions\/4379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}