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Home» News»French Navy Kicks Off Large Combined Exercise Ahead of CSG Deployment in Asia
French Navy Kicks Off Large Combined Exercise Ahead of CSG Deployment in Asia
The French multi-mission frigate (FREMM) "Provence" is seen from the flight deck of Charles de Gaulle during FANAL19. French Navy picture.

French Navy Kicks Off Large Combined Exercise Ahead of CSG Deployment in Asia

The French Navy (Marine Nationale) announced that aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its strike group set sails on February 3rd to participate in a large-scale combined exercise dubbed FANAL19. The goal of FANAL19 is to achieve a high level of operational readiness and interoperability within an allied naval force.

Xavier Vavasseur 06 Feb 2019

The French aircraft carrier deployed for the exercise with Spanish Navy frigate “Cristobal Colon”, U.S. Navy destroyer USS Donald Cook, the French multi-mission frigate (FREMM) “Provence”, the French command and replenishment ship “Marne” and a French Rubis-class nuclear attack submarine. The carrier strike group (CSG) is under the command of Rear-Admiral Olivier Lebas.

The scenario of FANAL19 calls for the CSG (Task Force 473) to face multiple threats in order to carry out naval air operations in multiple domains (projection of air-land power and anti-submarine, anti-surface and anti-air warfare).

French Navy Kicks Off Large Combined Exercise Ahead of CSG Deployment in Asia
The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier setting sail from Toulon naval base for FANAL19. French Navy picture.

FANAL19 marks the Charles de Gaulle’s final pre-deployment preparations following its 18-month mid life refit carried out by Naval Group. The carrier returned to the fleet in November 2018.

Units deployed as part of the TF473:

     Aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its air wing:
         22 Rafale Marine
         1 E2C Hawkeye
         1 NH90 NFH Caiman
         1 Dauphin Pedro
         1 Alouette III
     FREMM Provence
     BCR Marne
     1 SNA
     USS Donald Cook
     SPS Cristobal Colon

The Charles de Gaulle is set to deploy to the Indian and Pacific oceans by the end of the Month or early March.

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Posted by : Xavier Vavasseur
Xavier is based in Paris, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Xavier has been covering naval defense topics for nearly a decade.

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