{"id":21021,"date":"2010-11-01T08:35:48","date_gmt":"2010-11-01T12:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21021"},"modified":"2010-11-01T15:42:46","modified_gmt":"2010-11-01T19:42:46","slug":"charles-de-gaulle-not-what-it-used-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21021","title":{"rendered":"Charles de Gaulle &#8220;not what it used to be&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is not encouraging at all. And everyone wonders why we spend so much money on defense (from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1325269\/French-aircraft-carrier-set-defend-Britain-breaks-down.html#ixzz14288hBHU\">Daily Mail<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The French aircraft carrier which is set to play a key role in defending Britain over the next decade has broken down.<\/p>\n<p>As President Nicolas Sarkozy prepares to use a London summit this week to announce that RAF jets will fly from the carrier Charles de Gaulle, his naval chiefs have told him that she is no longer seaworthy.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She is meant to be heading to Afghanistan but is instead in her home port with a faulty propulsion system,\u2019 said a French Navy source.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, this is after three years of being refitted. The French and British have decided that they can get along with one carrier each and Britain&#8217;s isn&#8217;t built yet so they have to rely on France&#8217;s broke dick carrier which doesn&#8217;t seem to like being out of the hangar or dry dock or where ever ships go to get repaired.<\/p>\n<p>And so the the two formerly greatest military powers in the world roll over and play dead.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to old Trooper for the link and reminding me that this is the beginning of another shitty week.<\/p>\n<p>Old Trooper sent this picture of the de Gaulle along side the USS Enterprise;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ussenterprisefscharlesd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21030\" title=\"ussenterprisefscharlesd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ussenterprisefscharlesd.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ussenterprisefscharlesd.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/ussenterprisefscharlesd-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not encouraging at all. And everyone wonders why we spend so much money on &hellip; <a title=\"Charles de Gaulle &#8220;not what it used to be&#8221;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21021\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Charles de Gaulle &#8220;not what it used to be&#8221;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}