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Brief summary of French carrier air defenses across time. In the Clems early days, it was a) Crusaders b) Tartar on T-47s and c) MASURCA on three large ships, including the Colbert cruiser, retrofited.Later in their lives, during late 1970's Clems got Crotales short range missiles for local defense.As for CdG, it has Aster 15 (if not mistaken) on top of its Rafales. More Asters on frigates (not enough of them, unfortunately, but that has been a perenial issue with the french fleet: not enough air defense ships since the Tartar / MASURCA mix days).
Brief summary of French carrier air defenses across time. In the Clems early days, it was a) Crusaders b) Tartar on T-47s and c) MASURCA on three large ships, including the Colbert cruiser, retrofited.
Later in their lives, during late 1970's Clems got Crotales short range missiles for local defense.
As for CdG, it has Aster 15 (if not mistaken) on top of its Rafales. More Asters on frigates (not enough of them, unfortunately, but that has been a perenial issue with the french fleet: not enough air defense ships since the Tartar / MASURCA mix days).
