page_title: French aircraft carrier Foch
section_title: Principal operations
hierarchical_section_title: French aircraft carrier Foch / Principal operations
caption_attribution_description: Six Aéronavale Dassault Super Étendard ant two Étendard IVM (foreground) fighters aboard the French aircraft carrier Foch (R99) off the coast of Lebanon, in 1983.
context_page_description: Foch was the second Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier that served with the French Navy from 1963 to 2000. The carrier was the second warship named in honour of the Marshal of France, British Field Marshal and Marshal of Poland Ferdinand Foch
  After serving with the French navy, the vessel was sold to Brazil and renamed São Paulo.
context_section_description: Main naval operations for the époque were conducted by the twin carrier Clemenceau. Foch was engaged in the following:
  1966: Foch participated, with Alfa Force (French: Force Alfa), to the campaign of French nuclear experimentation in the Pacific.
  1978 : during the Independence of Djibouti, Foch deployed in the Red Sea in Operation Saphir II.
  1983 : Foch participated to the support of the French contingent deployed in Lebanon within the cadre of the Operation Olifant missions. The carrier would rotate with Clemenceau providing constant on station air support to French peacekeepers in the Multinational Force in Lebanon FSMB and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon UNIFIL.
  1993 - 1999 : Foch was regularly engaged in Operations Balbuzard, Salamandre and Trident in the Adriatic Sea during the engagement of France in ex-Yugoslavia within the cadre of FORPRONU and the SFOR and KFOR. The carrier ensured the security of French elements deployed on the ground, and conducted aerial raids under the command of the United Nations and NATO.
caption: Six Aéronavale Dassault Super Étendard and two Étendard IVM (foreground) fighters aboard the French aircraft carrier Foch (R99) off the coast of Lebanon, in 1983.
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