{"id":880457,"date":"2026-04-08T15:55:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/880457\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:55:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:55:19","slug":"has-france-quietly-become-europes-real-naval-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/880457\/","title":{"rendered":"Has France quietly become Europe\u2019s real naval power?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While political attention has largely focused on rearmament pledges across NATO\u2019s northern and eastern flanks in recent years, France has been steadily consolidating a naval position that few of its European peers can match. <\/p>\n

An operationally available\u00a0nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, a frigate fleet that has grown through the 2010s rather than contracted and an export record that continues to attract new customers have combined to place the Marine nationale in a category increasingly difficult for allies to rival.<\/p>\n

While France was able to deploy Charles de Gaulle<\/a> to the eastern Mediterranean on 5 March 2025, with the intention of\u00a0providing carrier-based strike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While political attention has largely focused on rearmament pledges across NATO\u2019s northern and eastern flanks in recent years,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880458,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36,249130,249131,8593,8722,104103],"class_list":["post-880457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-frigate","tag-marine-nationale","tag-royal-navy","tag-shipbuilding","tag-shipyard"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116369904765819428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}