French President Emmanuel Macron has ordered France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to move from the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean to protect allied assets during the ongoing war in the Middle East.
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Why is “nuclear powered” in the title? All carriers are like that it can power the ship for decades.
There are several non-nuclear fixed-wing carriers in service worldwide. France has three other carriers that are not nuclear, though they’re helicopter-only and therefore not considered by some to be in the same category.
You know they just put it there for clicks. It doesn’t matter at all to the content that it’s nuclear-powered but the word “nuclear” is getting them clicks and it’s gross.
It’s pronounced ‘nuc-u-lar’. ‘Nuc-u-lar’.
Actually, Italian and Spanish carriers are non-nuclear.
And for the UK
