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Operation Liberté 250 – Patrouille de France to participate in US anniversary celebrations

18 May 2026 Jacek Domański

From 8 June to 4 July 2026, Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace (the French Air and Space Force) will deploy personnel and aircraft to the United States to take part in the celebrations marking […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Airbus A400M Atlas in the Far North – part two: Beyond the Polar Circle

16 March 2025 Jacek Domański

At the beginning of this month, the French Equipe de Marque Avion de Transport Tactique (Test and Evaluation Squadron for Tactical Airlift – EMATT) has started another stage of the cold weather test operation programme […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Airbus A400M Atlas in equatorial forest – operation BUBO25

12 March 2025 Jacek Domański

On 24th February 2025, Armée de l’air et de l’espace (the French Air and Space Force) achieved another milestone by successful deployment of Airbus A400M Atlas to equatorial area of French Guiana. It was the […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Cold weather experiment – Airbus A400M Atlas

5 February 2025 Jacek Domański

Between 13th and 20th January 2025, the French Equipe de Marque Avion de Transport Tactique (Test and Evaluation Squadron for Tactical Airlift – EMATT) intensively tested capabilities of the Airbus A400M Atlas airlifter by operating […]

MILITARY AVIATION

Forty days around the Indo-Pacific – exercise Pégase 2023

11 October 2023 Jacek Domański

Between 25th June and 3rd August 2023, 320 members of French military personnel participated in operational deployment in the Indo-Pacific region, codenamed Pégase 2023. The main objective of the exercise was to prove the ability […]

MILITARY AVIATION

´Rapid Pacific´ goes down under

23 August 2022 Jacek Domański

Last week, Eurofighter EF 2000 jets assigned to the 74th Tactical Air Wing (Taktisches Luftwaffengeschwader 74 – TaktLwG 74) in Neuburg an der Donau (also known as the Bavarian Tigers), successfully landed in Darwin, Australia. […]

AVIATION HISTORY FRIDAY

11 December 2009 – maiden flight of Airbus A400M Atlas

11 December 2020 Jacek Domański

Maiden flight of Airbus A400M Atlas Someday in the early 1980s, an idea of European transport aeroplane was born. At that time, Transall C-160 and Lockheed C-130 Hercules were the backbone of military airlifting in […]

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Space

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