Standing on the deck of the French aircraft carrier, Charles de Gaulle, the pace of air operations is surprisingly swift.
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Several times per hour the crew launches between four and 10 fighter jets, many of them armed and headed for Iraq and Syria.
France recently moved the Charles de Gaulle — or “CDG” as the crew calls it — to the Mediterranean Sea, close to the Syrian coast.
The move comes as Iraqi-led forces have begun what is expected to be a messy and prolonged offensive to seize the country’s second-largest city, Mosul.
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