French Navy – The aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is exercising in the Gulf and the Indian Ocean.

• Agence France-Presse: French aircraft carrier stops in Abu Dhabi on the way to India

Royal Navy – The cuts run even deeper – there will be no Harrier aircraft to fly off of HMS Ark Royal.

• Daily Telegraph: Five RAF bases to close in £1bn cuts

US Navy – How will the US get permission to base a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in Japan?

• Japan Times: Kitty Hawk successor to be nuclear-powered

US Navy – The latest naval news from around the fleet.

• Sea Power: War Operations Update