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French Navy Carrier Strike Group Deploys, Will Be Joined by Royal Navy ASW Frigate HMS Kent.
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 Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Kent will join the French Carrier Strike Group in the Red Sea and provide ASW protection. Picture: Royal Navy / Crown Copyright |
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The CSG is a strategic military tool, able to adapt
and modify its program in line with developments in the crisis in Iraq
and according to the needs of the coalition to respond quickly to the
decisions of political authorities.
As in 2014, during its last deployment made in the Indian Ocean, the CSG will have to operate under US operational control to test and enhance the level of interoperability and cooperation between the two navies and thus maintain the ability to jointly conduct high intensity operations. Similarly, the Royal Navy frigate HMS Kent, who will participate in the anti-submarine protection of the aircraft carrier, will be fully integrated to the French CSG, illustrating the confidence that unites the British and French navies and their high level of interoperability. In 2014, the CSG deployment was called Bois Belleau (Belleau Wood), referring to the centenary of the First World War and cooperation with France's American allies. This year, the mission is named "Arromanches", after the town in Normandy where an artificial harbor was built during the D-Day in June 1944. In memory of the first French aircraft carrier built after the war and 70 years after the end of the Second World war, the "Arromanches" mission will honor the cooperation between France and her American and British allies. The CSG offers France and her political and military decision-makers a strategic asset and a key military tool. Affirming the presence and power of France, it can simultaneously contribute to the control of air-sea areas, maintaining the capacity for autonomous situation assessment and power projection. It offers the capacity of versatile and proportionate action adapted to the needs of the political authorities. |
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