armée de l'air et de l'espace

  1. Deltafan

    French A-330 MRTT "Phénix"

    Raised to standard 2, the A330 MRTT tanker aircraft will have an electronic warfare capability https://www.opex360.com/2024/10/10/dissuasion-porte-au-standard-2-la330-mrtt-aura-une-capacite-de-guerre-electronique/
  2. uk 75

    France's Ultimate Warning

    From the 70s to the end of the Cold War France deployed its own tracked vehicle launched battlefield nuclear missile, Pluton. A truck and trailer mounted replacement Hades was entering service as the Cold War ended. In peacetime Pluton and its warheads were stationed in France. However, once a...
  3. Spey_Phantom

    Future Mid-Size Tactical Cargo (FMTC)

    France, Germany and Sweden have agreed to develop a new medium-size tactical transport plane. this is intended to replace the C-130J in the 2040's and supplement the Airbus A400M https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-detail/france-germany-sweden-launch-future-transport-aircraft personel...
  4. uk 75

    France's pivotal defence role

    While the size and importance of France's armed forces in 1914 and 1939 is well understood, their importance since 1945 does not seem to be appreciated. Until the creation of West Germany's Bundeswehr at the end of the 1950s it was France that bore the brunt of providing the largest West...
  5. T

    Alpha Jet

    While some weird dudes are celebrating the epitomized image of an autocrat*, the french AdlAE discretely commemorates one of its hero pilot (Poet and novelist), Mr Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Free French air Force pilot, Croix de Guerre with palms, MIA, with the birth of its most famous...
  6. M

    France to develop anti satellite lasers and "defensive" mini babysitting satellites

    https://www.france24.com/en/20190725-france-develop-anti-satellite-laser-weapons-minister https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-france-space-defence/france-to-launch-fearsome-surveillance-satellites-to-bolster-space-defences-idUKKCN1UK1TR?utm_source=reddit.com
  7. Grey Havoc

    Commandement des Opérations Espace

    This thread is for the new High Command (or grand operations command in the French air force's parlance) for Space Operations of the Armée de l'Air Française that President Macron has just announced. A Space Force in other words. Apparently Macron intends to eventually rename the air force as...
  8. Deltafan

    France-Germany-Spain Future Combat Air System (FCAS / SCAF / FSAC)

    Hi, As this project (for the replacement of the French Rafale and the German Eurofighter) is different of the Airbus project to replace the German Tornado and the Spanish F-18, I open a new topic :) Well, as the time to replace Rafale and EF is not for tomorrow, this topic may last for...
  9. Triton

    Dassault Mirage 2000

    Some Dassault Mirage 2000 goodness from Les Chevaliers du Ciel HD Promo! View: http://youtu.be/HEe3xfWfkG8 View: http://youtu.be/60XPS66MxmA
  10. Triton

    Dassault Rafale NEWS ONLY

    "Rafale: Now Drawing Fire At Home" Posted by Robert Wall at 12/8/2011 5:19 AM CST It is certainly Rafale's time in the crosshairs. The French government is adding to the already huge pressure on Dassault to secure an export deal, warning the long-term prospects of the twin-engine fighter...
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