Defense Technology International – Where do French naval pilots practice taking-off and landing on an aircraft carrier while theirs is in the shipyard? Answer: borrow others’ at every available opportunity???or land on one sketched out on a landing strip. So, before the USS Harry S. Truman sails out of French waters after docking in the Mediterranean port of Marseilles, since last Thursday two Rafales and one Hawkeye had some practice runs landing and taking off from its flight deck yesterday.
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