Charles De Gaulle aircraft carrier docks in UAE

France’s only aircraft carrier the Charles de Gaulle has been deployed in the Gulf since December for actions against the group calling itself Islamic State (ISIL). “We are monitoring all flights in the war zone according to military agreements between the US and Russia: two forces operating in the same war zone. The agreement was put in place after Russia started air strikes in Syria. We monitor all flights to avoid military incidents between US-led coalition planes and Russian planes. It works very well,” said Rear Admiral René Jean Crignola. The Charles De Gaulle is currently docked in the Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Fuel stocks for aircraft are nearly 4 million litres of aircraft fuel is stored on board. When taking-off, a jet fighter burns 400 litres of fuel per minute. Our correspondent Rita Del Prete reported out that aircraft take off every 30 seconds, from 0 to 250 kilometers in about two seconds, driven by steam power and the force of the wind. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = “//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3”; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, ‘script’, ‘facebook-jssdk’));Take a closer looks inside France's state-of-the-art aircraft carrier Charles de GaulleFor more on this story>>>http://eurone.ws/XpohmPosted by euronews on Friday, January 22, 2016