thanks

Love the new PFP man

especially the women

They have four aircraft carriers of their own.

@@AUmarcus yep the de Gaulle is a traditional carrier, sweet. Wish more of our allies had same capabilities

i traditional carrier?

Baguettes lead the way!

we have one airplanes carrier and 3 helicopters carriers

It's "la" France but yeh!😉

Very string!

I t wasn't that way after ww2; we saved there butts and they were so ungratflle

@@davidnelson1134 thing is - US entered the War very lately - the bush family was Adolph banker. - we were not invited to Yalta meeting. - US tried to print green dollar-like francs. Fake money.

@@davidnelson1134 tens of thousands of french people, most part women children died in American bombings, I live near a city on the sea side that used to be beautiful but it was leveled by b-17 and b-24… the Nazi and french pro Nazi propaganda tried to use this to turn the opinion against the USA but it didn't work and the troops were welcomed with joy, kisses and party in every town and village so I wouldn't call that ungrateful. I'm personally grateful. Have a great uncle who was in the free french forces, he fought from north Africa to Germany on a .... Sherman tank. He was grateful. Not everything is all black or white. The first American fighter pilots flew on french planes in the french air force in WW1. The first American tanks were Renault. It also went both way you see. Our alliance made your country.

I recall they did that back in I think 2018 when the CDG was undergoing a large maintenance

@@broadside5994 Not a full up deployment, but Rafales and French E-2s went to the US for a big exercise with the Navy. It was more so the French pilots could stay qualified.

It’d be interesting in no small part to see how the French and American servicemen get along working together in close quarters for that long. I say that not as an anti-French thing or anything; it’d be true of any ally on one of our boats for an extended time. But that’s likely what we’d end up with in wartime, so we should train for that too. It’s not the easiest thing getting along with foreign servicemen, no matter who you are.

The Truman would have to serve wine in the galley.

@@yxeaviationphotog french guy here, I think the french navy pilots go in the US for a few months and they get 2 diplomas, US and French. Also, only France and the US have nuclear aircraft carriers.

Ouais, mais il n'est pas encore sur DCS 😉

@@Pakal77 Toujours un avion classifié c'est normal

Oh t’es aussi la panzer😂👍

The Raptor is also an awesome american design. F16... If you look for Pierre Sprey. You'll find out the brain behind the F16 is born French. F14 TomCat. If you search for it you'll find out the switch wings are a Dassault design. French again...

@@alexdarcydestsimon3767 pierre sprey had nothing to do with the actual design of the f-16

@@unx74 i agree he did not design the F16 himself but he was the mind behind..You need to look deeper for lightweight fighter mafia. Lwf program.

@@alexdarcydestsimon3767 the f-14 stuff was built out of the f-111 program and we were already messing with swing wing technology before France was

@@alexdarcydestsimon3767 Pierre Sprey had no contributions whatsoever to the actual design of the F-16. He’s just a man in the fighter mafia who takes interviews and criticizes advanced fighter jets and forces the public to think that crop dusters are good for peer-to-peer engagements, and that dogfighting is still relevant. I, or anyone, would never take the word of a man who considers dogfights as “relevant” in the age of modern missiles, radars, stealth coatings, laser weapons, and unmanned drones.

except the brits don't have any nuclear aircraft carriers and their jets are not qualified to take of US carriers (except the US made one)

@@johndoe-cd9vt Fleet Air Arm F-4s

@@johndoe-cd9vt The only carrier capable jets the UK has are the US made ones.

@@sparkymark68 UK has 0 nuclear aircraft carriers and doesn't have the knowledge to build and operate them, no matter the material coming from the US or not, only 2 countries have that knowledge, the US and France and China is working on it

@@johndoe-cd9vt We do however have 2 aircraft carriers and jets to land on them and yours.

They actually sound similar to the F-18's.

Le demarrage est encore plus impressionnant 👍

Every ten years or so they get together and train on board one of our carriers while the Charles DeGaulle is out for maintenance. Four years ago they had Chesapeake 2018, which involved 12 Rafales, 1 French E2C Hawkeye, along with 350 French Sailors living and training on board the USS George Bush for two weeks. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p8WFmKdlkq3Mqnk.html

Baguettes too

@@domingofung try Camembert ! ;-)

@@alexdarcydestsimon3767 toi essaye le ketchup 🤣👍

@@ericnguyenvan7 c'était par rapport à l'autre abruti qui nous parle baguette pour diminuer le prestige des armes françaises. Libre à vous d'essayer le ketchup... Je pense que le Munster et le fromage corse sont moins risqués.

Americans are not our allies , we are under their domination... True allies wouldn't damage the north stream gas pipe, like American did.

I like that.

I say the same thing

@@raphaelguardado2787 lmao, you are a russian bot my friend. Ftg au pire.

@@jameslegrand848 I am glad to learn that 😂, I couldn't realise it because since I was born, I have been living in France ! As it is time to reveal things, some call it the apocalypse, I have to tell you that you are a pure idiot. Only idiots call Americans "our allies", although they destroyed the north stream gas pipe that provides energy to Europe. but only Europe's enemies could do such things (English and americans). The anglo-saxons empire is not a friend of France. Only french treaters work with Americans. I DON'T BUY AMERICAN is the right attitude for every citizens of this planet.

By far the best plane after the Eurofighter 😉😆

😂

@@alexanderlorenz6147 The Rafale was built by France because the Eurofighter Typhoon was recognised as very insufficient and unable to make a carrier version: not forgott that before France leave the Eurofighter project, Dassault was selected as project manager...

The Eurofighter-Dassault debate is complicated, I consider them being equal, but yeah, the Rafale is better for naval operations

@@tavolo2969 Take a look to all foreign evaluations where rafale and eurofighter were competitor (Suitzerland, Nederland...). Rafale had better scores than Eurofighter in all types of mission, air to air included. Eurofighter is still a very good aircraft, but less than rafale ;)

I think I've heard that the rafale wasn't as good as Americans jets.... but ithave been done with far less money XD

*Rafale

@@pilout8637 chad

US is nato

It’s so hard to say Rafale !?

You pronounce both a’s like in ahh

The CDG is obviously smaller than US carriers but the landing area itself appears to be just a bit smaller, so it probably wasn't too difficult for US Navy pilots. Size won't be an issue for France's next carrier though as it will be the second largest carrier in the world at 75,000 tons of displacement compared to its current 42,000 on the CDG.

Yes, "M" means Marine ("Navy")

That’s because currently, aside from the US, only France operates an aircraft carrier that can catapult aircrafts and use wires to stop them when landing. So they developed the rafale marine to operate on the Charles de Gaulle, so obviously it can land on American ones (as they are bigger, it’s actually easier to land on them). Only aircrafts capable of vertical landing could land on those aircraft carriers, and because aside from the harrier which isn’t in service anymore, no one else appart from the Americans make them, so only f35 from other countries could land on aircraft carriers

@@vizenderheat from vertical landing engines would damaged surface of the deck

@@salekondrej it depends if the landing surface is treated and has a collant system integrated

@@salekondrej You could be right, unless the surfaces of catobar carriers are treated with heat absorbing coatings as well. F35B's are already capable of landing on the QE and POW, as well as American amphibious assault ships, which some people refer to as mini-carriers, as well as the Italian Cavour and the Japanese Izumo. .

The rafale's F4 standard makes it a 5th-generation jet on a par with the F-22 or F-35, even though we have a much smaller budget than the US.

@@lijock45 Il restera quand même de génération 4.5, ne soyons pas trop chauvin au point d'en rajouter, il ne sera jamais autant furtif qu'un F22 ou qu'un F35 et c'est ça qui fait qu'un chasseur est de 5ème génération sur le papier.

@@user45g-4c5rf techniquement sans rien sous les ailes ils est furtif, mais il lui manque juste ça pour être de gen 5

may it could have an engine with more thrust .in some situation from what i ve heard . it was proposed and rejected because of cost as a pilot's whim.. but pilots and nay seem happy with it..good enough for me..

@@jacqueslemiere exact. They say its a "pilot cry". They think its not necessary but at very high altitude. The rafale have some difficulty.

Ca sent l impartialité 😂 mais j approuve

France is America's earliest friend

@@rodgermurphy5721 Yep. Old allies

@@rodgermurphy5721 when we see the current world, the hostile and aggressive countries it is super important our alliance between my country France and the American power and of course our English friends

@@cervicalestorticolis7914 Agreed completely

NATO. The most formidable alliance in the history of humanity 🇫🇷🇺🇸🇬🇧🇨🇦. . . .

Same, Wholesome to see two old friend nations cooperating, as french we have a lot of respect for american military men and women

@@UnknownEvil_BadAliens As an American we appreciate France more than any other country because they were our first ally. Vive la France!

Looks like the second salute is a V sign (peace sign, 2 fingers up),not a complete salute, like "salute, peace out guys"

it's true, on the other hand on the CDG the US pilots will have to learn to master their machines, among the French pilots a lot of pretenders but few elected in the end and at night it's even worse on a rough sea. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p72VmaR9u6q7aHk.html

Ho Yeaaaahhhh! It's sooo BIG

I was actually wondering if F18 can land and take off from our CDG carrier?

​@@jonathanlecavelier3591possible. The first blueprints of CDG was to carry F-18.

i know Australia has a squadron or more F-18 Hornets, so I am surprised that Australia is not on your list.

Japan, ROK, Australia, Taiwan and possibly the Philippines will hopefully be added to that list soon.

So?

made in France! :)

ça peut surtout poser un problème sur le long terme et également pour les gens qui seraient allergiques à la substance ou ayant des pathologies intestinales...Bref vaut mieux éviter

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mbGop8R70LGbeXU.html

@@StrikeFighterExperience that was brilliant ! Thank you. 👏👍

C'est bien vrai! J'ajouterais "ou italien", mais ça deviendrait long.

Pfff! Chauvin va ! 😁

keeps them on their toes!

"zone de danger" is what you are looking for

Seminar?

Rafale M: empty 10196 kg, max 24500 kg

@@cosmoschtroumpf no worse then a F-14.

Rafale, pronounced RAFAL, not Rafael..."rafael" is a name.,

Well compared to a Nimitz class carrier the De Gaule is a tab bit shoter thus the need to launch faster.

Glad you enjoyed it!

it will be sunk soon by russian stupidity.

F14 was a significantly larger aircraft. The MTOW alone for an F14 was nearly 20,00 lbs more.

@@jeffj126 true ,but the exhaust angled toward the deck like the French aircraft. I was blown over a few times by the exhaust of a tomcat, as well as a prowler and even one time an E2C

@@jeffj126 Well according to my calculations 🤓

No you don't. Not even close to f 14 cat.

I believe there are universal gestures that we all understand but I’ve only ever been on a U.S. Carrier

I don't know but most of the french navy pilots are also graduated from the US, so I think they use the same tools

French pilots are trained in Meridian, Mississippi, so I thing they learn a common system

No, but it's made to takeoff from a shorter deck. CDGs catapults are only 75m (250 feet), and maybe the weight wasn't that high. Also notice the high AoA of the plane.

Not reciproc. Very few "non french navy pilot" are french carriet capable. Charles de Gaulle is a very small carrier in comparison of US ones.

@@gringologie9302 Indeed it is very small! But yes, there are US pilots who have passed their qualification on the Charles de Gaulle and have been doing so for several years. Here is an example but you can find others: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p7V5m66l2721iYk.htmlsi=DfJyNLvrek355OOt And it’s not just fighter planes landing: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rL-JmNmXq5vPhqc.htmlsi=Up8ihuSRxAIZJNnC Of course it doesn't happen every day, I agree.

from France with Love!😂

We went a few of our jets and personnel over there as well. Didn’t witness it but they got back to our ship ok!

@@StrikeFighterExperienceI did not know ! I hope they enjoy the trip ! =D

@@pierre5245 Wine at meals 😇😂

@@khaelamensha3624 We make amazing beer too =D

I think there are some videos on youtube about it

but that day they had a special guest...