From 260 meters long by 64 meters wide, 42,000 tons of load, powered by nuclear power by the Charles de Gaulle portaviones, is powered by two motors. The French paquebot is the mobile base of more than 40 fighter aircraft.
In the early morning of 8 April, the French Army reported that the aircraft carrier which was maneuvering in the Atlantic on the occasion of a Foch operation is heading towards the military base of Toulon, near Marseille, for having touched 40 of its crews supposedly with Covid-19 plagues. Despite the fact that the ship has sufficient health professionals and infrastructure to serve them, the Army will provide by air the necessary materials for the specific testing and treatment of the virus.
The Frenchman Charles De Gaulle is the second atomic carrier that the coronavirus has left out of the game the NATO military alliance. The first was Theodore Roosvelt of the United States Army.