A rare US-French joint training operation recently took place off the Virginia coast, the culmination of which resulted in French Navy fighters flying from the US Navy aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush. REPORT AND PHOTOS Ivan Voukadinov
Sharing the deck — a Rafale M taxies on the deck of the USS Bush alongside an F/A-18E.
THERE’S A STRONG and long history of co-operation between the US and French naval air arms, but this was taken to a whole new level during a joint training operation held between April 5 and May 21. A major exercise culminated with Aéronautique Navale (French Navy) aircraft operating from the US carrier, the USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77).
