Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Mai matsakaicin girma, "Charles de Gaulle" ya fi ƙananan manyan Amurkawa ƙanƙanta amma ya fi irin waɗannan jiragen ruwa da Rasha, Indiya, da Brazil ke aiki ko kuma suka yi ritaya. "Charles de Gaulle" an gina shi ne ga Sojojin ruwan Faransa a Brest daga 1980 zuwa 2001, tare da kammala jirgin da aka jinkirta sosai saboda rage kasafin kudi da matsalolin inji. Bayan da aka ba da umarnin "Charles de Gaulle", gwamnatin Faransa ta tura shi da sauri don tallafawa Yaƙin a Afghanistan. Har ila yau, jirgin ya ga aikin aiki a cikin goyon bayan aikin soja na NATO a Libya
(2011) da kuma sa hannun sojan kasa da kasa a kan ISIL (2015) kafin a sake gyara kusan shekaru biyu.