At the 27th European Naval Exhibition held recently, the "new generation aircraft carrier" model exhibited by France attracted attention from the outside world. Looking back on the development of aircraft carriers in France, it can be said that there have been many twists and turns. The appearance of the "new generation aircraft carrier" model ended the dispute over the design of the next generation aircraft carrier in France, showing France's desire to strengthen maritime power. After the Second World War, France gave up the practice of purchase or lease and designed and built the Clemenceau class conventional power aircraft carrier. This is a small aircraft carrier with a displacement of only 30,000 tons. It uses a slant straight two segment flight deck and can carry more than 40 carrier based aircraft. The Clemenceau class aircraft carrier, "Clemenceau", was commissioned in November 1961, when the United States began to build a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. After the ship was put into service, France once considered building a nuclear powered aircraft carrier, but it was difficult to make a decision because of the difficulties in developing nuclear power. After repeated research, France finally decided to build a nuclear powered aircraft carrier. The first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, "Charles de Gaulle", was listed in 2001, with a full load displacement of 40,000 tons, which is further larger than that of Clemenceau class aircraft carriers. The available deck area is also larger, but the number of carrier based aircraft is reduced by 30% (less than 30), seriously restricting its air combat capability. At the same time, since the "Charles de Gaulle" aircraft carrier uses a small nuclear reactor used by ballistic missile nuclear submarines and its total output power is low, the maximum speed of the aircraft carrier is only 27 knots, even lower than the maximum speed of Clemenceau class conventional power aircraft carrier (32 knots), so it is called the "slowest" nuclear power aircraft carrier. In the face of the problem of the "Charles de Gaulle" aircraft carrier, France is wavering about whether to adhere to the development of nuclear powered aircraft carriers. In 2004, French President Jacques Chirac announced that he would give up nuclear power and plan to build a medium-sized conventional power aircraft carrier with a full displacement of 75000 tons. In theory, the maximum sailing time and carrying capacity of this aircraft carrier fully meet the needs of the French navy, but because there is no obvious breakthrough in deck layout and ejection technology, the comprehensive performance is far from that of the Nimitz class nuclear powered aircraft carrier of the United States at the same time, and this plan has been put on hold. The "new generation aircraft carrier" broke through the tradition. In 2018, France proposed the "new generation aircraft carrier" plan for the first time and turned to nuclear power. In October 2020, the French Navy officially determined the construction plan of the "new generation aircraft carrier" and said that its performance would be greatly improved compared with the "Charles de Gaulle" aircraft carrier. The French "new generation aircraft carrier" model displayed at the naval exhibition shows that this is a medium-sized nuclear powered aircraft carrier with a full load displacement of 75000 to 80000 tons, a ship length of 310 meters and a deck area of 17000 square meters. At the same time, due to the higher total output power of the nuclear reactor, the aircraft carrier was able to optimize the deck layout, speed and shipborne aircraft. It is reported that the "new generation aircraft carrier" will be equipped with two K22 nuclear reactors. The power of a single reactor is about 46% higher than that of the K15 reactor on the "Charles de Gaulle" aircraft carrier, greatly increasing the total output power. At the same time, the ship body is designed as a wave piercing bow, and the stern is added with an inclined projection, which extends the length of the waterline, greatly reduces the resistance of the ship body, and the maximum speed of the aircraft carrier can reach 30 knots, thus solving the problem of "Charles de Gaulle"