Aircraft Carriers - What is their future?

[Dill]

(07-19-2017, 04:34 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: We currently have 21 aircraft carriers in our Navy: 11 CATOBAR and 10 STOL. CATOBAR is Catapult-Assisted Take-Off, Barrier-Assisted Recovery. These are the biggest aircraft carriers capable of holding and launching a large number and wide array of fixed-wing aircraft. They most resemble their smaller ancestors from WWII. Only 1 other country in the world (France) operates a CATOBAR (i.e. there are only 12 in the world and we have 11 of them).

Why do the French need an aircraft carrier???