With the arrival of spring, Armée de l’air et de l’espace (the French Air and Space Force) conducted one of its major live-fly exercises of the year, codenamed Poker, which simulated a nuclear air raid. […]
Dassault Mirage IIIDS (c/n MD 470, HB-RDF, formerly ´J-2012´ of the Swiss Air Force), static display at the 75th Anniversary of Meiringen airfield, Meiringen, June 2016. In the early 1950s, the French Ministry of Defence […]
On 21st November 2024, the seventh example of Dassault Rafale multirole fighter for the Croatian Air Force and Air Defence (Hrvatsko ratno zrakoplovstvo i protuzračna obrana – CroAF) landed at the ´Colonel Marko Živković´ air […]
On 29th August 2024, Serbia and France officially signed bilateral documents confirming the purchase of twelve Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft for the Serbian Air Force and Air Defence (Ратно ваздухопловство и противваздухопловна одбрана Војске Србије). […]
During a press conference held two days ago, on 9th April 2024, the Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić officially disclosed that Serbia and France have reached a preliminary agreement on purchase of twelve Dassault Rafale fighter […]
On 2nd October 2023, a solemn handover ceremony of the first Dassault Rafale multirole fighter to Croatian Air Force and Air Defence (Hrvatsko ratno zrakoplovstvo i protuzračna obrana – CroAF) took place at Mont-de-Marsan air […]
At the beginning of August 2023, the Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Miloš Vučević paid an official visit in the Arab Republic of Egypt. During that visit, the Serbian MoD and his […]
Dassault Mirage F1CR (c/n 646, 118-NW of Armée de l’air / the French Air Force), static display at Slovak International Air Fest, Sliać, August 2013. In the 1950s, French aircraft manufacturer – Dassault Aviation – […]
Dassault / Dornier Alpha Jet E (c/n E33, 705-FJ of the French Air Force / Armée de l’Air), static display at Kleine-Brogel air base spotter day, September 2019. In the early 1960s, European NATO countries […]
5th November 1917 – French record-breaking aviatrix, Jacqueline Auriol, was born. Jacqueline Marie-Thérèse Suzanne Douet, as was her maiden name, was born on 5th November 1917 in Challans, Vendée in France. She was a daughter […]
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