Very silly typical anglo-saxon francophobe rant, full of mistakes resulting from talking secondhand of things you know nothing about (a so-called "SS France" being built pre-war!), ending with a even more silly conclusion :
"She would have been a much better, more capable ship if she'd been designed as a dead dinosaur powered STOVL carrier but that would mean the French buying Harriers."
And, of course, now that the very limited Harrier is stone-dead, the ship would be useless. Charles de Gaulle was never meant to have 3 reactors. The drydock owned by DCN is in Brest; it had to be used anyway because the ship was nuclear-powered and only DCN could handle that, security and technology-wise. The civilian facility is not "across the harbour", but in Saint-Nazaire, 290 km away, and was not and is not equipped to build ships to full naval standards, not to mention nuclear-powered ones! The reason for the drydock in Brest not being lengthened over 260m was because of a very high cost, not because of a toolshed owned by the ministry of the interior (on an naval shipyard!). The catapult story is completely invented ; US C-13-3 where chosen from the very start, and they were always planned staggered as they are. Same goes for the arresting gear; a US equipement was chosen from square one. US carriers also had overrun problems that led to lengthened landing areas. The reason for choosing LEU fuel for the SNLE-NG and PA1 reactors was not an attempt to export them. Someone writing that exporting HEU-fueled naval propulsion reactors has ANYTHING to do with the NPT is really a moron. Rafale-M spot factor is indeed slightly lower than the F/A-18E/F one. Flight deck is the strength deck also on US carriers, ever since the Forrestals. So on and so forth.
Yes, Charles de Gaulle has had problems, and still has, but there it is, operating supersonic combat aircraft and E-2C Hawkeye, including cross-deck operations with the USN. All the rest coming from countries which have been unable to do the same since 1978 is just laughable. As far as I'm concerned, I would prefer we mix as little as possible with these people in the future.
If "Stuart" is Stuart Slade, I'm not surprised by his attitude. I've found the degree of hyperbole and spin in his comments to generally rival that in Carlo Kopp's opinions.