At the beginning of August 2025, Armée de l’Air et de l’Espace (the French Air and Space Force) announced the latest addition to the firefighting fleet at Bordeaux-Mérignac Air Base (base aérienne 106 – BA […]
On 17th June 2025, the Australian catamaran Rushour capsized while leading Groupama Race around New Caledonia. All on board were saved due to quick rescue operation carried out by Forces armées en Nouvelle-Calédonie – FANC […]
In early April of 2025, Forces armées en Guyane – FAG (the Armed Forces in French Guiana) performed three medevac operations within forty-eight hours. All missions were successfully completed by Cayenne-based Escadron de Transport 68 […]
On 23rd April 2025, Armée de l’air et de l’espace (the French Air and Space Force) held a live-fly training, codenamed CIGONEX. It was the first joint exercise of the French ´Cigognes´ (English: storks) squadrons, […]
On 17th March 2025, the fifth edition of the French military space exercise – codenamed AsterX 2025 – began at Centre national d’études spatiales (National Centre for Space Studies – CNES), Toulouse Space Centre. Organised […]
In the last few weeks, Armée de l’air et de l’espace (the French Air and Space Force) performed a few interesting operations with Airbus A400M Atlas airlifter in extreme weather conditions. They included two cold […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Since 2023, French Guiana – an overseas department of France located in the northern part of South America, between Suriname and Brazil – is suffering from extreme drought. In addition, the eighteen-month-long dry season French […]
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