French Navy Rafales, E-2C arriving at Hampton Roads next month

The French Navy is bring 12 Rafale Ms and one E-2C to Hampton Roads, Virginia for a deployment that will eventually see them embarking aboard USS George H.W. Bush.

U.S. and French sailors refuel two French navy F1 Rafale aircraft assigned to the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) during carrier qualification 140113-N-XL102-125
By MC2 Tyler Caswell [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Twenty-seven naval aviators will practice air–to–air and air–to–ground training missions from NAS Oceana and NS Norfolk.

They will then proceed to spend two weeks aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.