The “Charles-de-Gaulle’ must retire in 2038, but its successor, under study, should be delivered in 2036. In 1910, a biplane managed to take off from an American ship for the first time.
During the Cold War, the country built the “Clemenceau” (commissioned in 1961) and the ‘Foch’ (1963), which had, as a crucial asset, catapults to project heavier aircraft.