US, French, & Italian Navys to conduct rare "tri carrier operations" in the Eastern Mediterranean

[Budi]

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/01/us-french-and-italian-navies-to-conduct-tri-carrier-operations/

US, French And Italian Navies To Conduct Tri Carrier Operations
Carrier Strike Groups (CSG) of the US Navy, French Navy and Italian Navy are set to conduct rare "tri carrier operations" in the Eastern Mediterranean next month...
Xavier Vavasseur 20 Jan 2022

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During a press briefing held today at the French Ministry of Armed Forces, Rear Admiral Boidevezi explained that Mission Clemenceau 22 will focus on the Mediterranean region but some of the assets (a frigate and some fighters) will also deploy in the Black Sea. The French CSG will initially train with the Italian Navy and aircraft carrier ITS Cavour and its F-35B. In the Eastern Mediterranean, the two carriers will meet with the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) CSG and conduct rare “Tri Carrier Operations”.
The French CSG will conduct additional activities with the American CSG. On the way back, the French CSG will sail in the Adriatic Sea.

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A French Navy spokesman told Naval News that it is the first time that a French CSG will interact with a U.S. Navy CSG following the recent signature by the two navies of the Strategic Interoperability Framework.

According to our French Navy source, the carrier operations between the French and Americans will take place in the Eastern Mediterranean in February/March and will see the following take place:

*Combined sea control
*Combined power projection
*C4I (command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence) data sharing
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[dutch777]

1. I predict that the US carrier will be able to launch and sustain 10x the aircraft of the others and

...be able to do so for a week or more. I appreciate our NATO allies, I really do, but the fact is we have the only REAL Navy and REAL Air Force and as far as I have seen from my military service in the late 1970s until today the rest try for the sake of national honor but in fact always fail when tested when they try to project force beyond their home borders and bases. If you look at air forces sent to the middle east and elsewhere in last 20 years, they send a squadron of 6 aircraft and in less than a week they are lucky if they can launch one fully combat capable aircraft. The Brits may be the one exception to this.

[Angleae]

2. The french carrier is quite capable.

Charles de Gaulle usually carries 30+ Rafale-M in addition to 1 or 2 E-2 Hawkeyes.