The Suffren, the first of six nuclear attack submarines in the new Barracuda program, carried out its first test at sea off Cherbourg in late April. In Saint-Nazaire on the shipyards, Monday, the Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly set the horizon to equip the navy with a new aircraft carrier. "This is where the new generation aircraft carrier that will succeed the Charles-de-Gaulle in 2038 will be built, with 2036 in sight for the first sea trials ," she said.
During the coronavirus epidemic, the armies seem to continue on their way. However, the economic crisis which is beginning threatens all its programs of postponements or "inevitable" delays , it is said within the armies. So the soldiers prepare their arguments to defend their missions.
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"In a post-crisis Covid-19 world that is even more dangerous, given the violent behavior of certain regional players, a likely precipitous American withdrawal and Chinese activism" , it will not be necessary
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