France: the Saint-Nazaire site chosen for the construction of the new aircraft carrier
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Florence Parly was on the road this Monday, May 18 at the Chantiers de l'Atlantique in Saint-Nazaire. The French Minister of the Armed Forces indicated that this industrial site would be retained for the construction of a future aircraft carrier brought to replace in a few years the flagship of the national navy, the nuclear aircraft carrier "Charles-de-Gaulle".
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Read moreThe purpose of moving Florence Parly to Saint-Nazaire was to inaugurate the construction of the Jacques-Chevallier , a new generation oil and supply ship . Four ships of this type will leave Chantiers de l'Atlantique to replace the three existing forty-year-old tanker-tankers.
A priority investment, argued the Minister of the Armed Forces who also said that there was not the only purpose of this trip: “ We cut the first sheet of a new generation of ship, tanker-tankers. Then the reason for my visit is also to realize the industrial capacity of the Chantiers de l'Atlantique to design huge ships. And tomorrow, the new generation aircraft carrier will be built here because the Chantiers de l'Atlantique are the only shipyards capable of building a ship of such a size and such a tonnage. "
The Charles-de-Gaulle nuclear aircraft carrier will remain in service for twenty years. If, to replace it, a study budget has already been voted, a new military programming law will have to initiate construction. In times of economic crisis, the future of the new French aircraft carrier is therefore suspended on an eminently political decision which will be taken at the highest level of the State.
Read also: First dive at sea of "Suffren", the new French nuclear submarine
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