The 🇫🇷 Joint Staff - Millitary operations

🤝 Sharing know-how and strengthening cohesion among NATO Allies.
#StrongerTogether

📍Baltic | Joint exercise between the Rafale 🇫🇷 and two allied ships 🇩🇪🇪🇸 off the Danish coast.

🎯Test the air defense capabilities of our allies, while testing our ability to operate as a naval force built around the Charles de Gaulle’s Carrier Strike Group.

📍Red Sea | Commercial ships protected by a 🇫🇷 air-defence destroyer under
ASPIDES 🇪🇺

⚓️French Navy is committed to maritime security, freedom of navigation, and stability in a tense area

🎯Strengthen the unity between NATO' allied nations and test our combat techniques - be ready to defend the Alliance🛡️

📍Estonia | CALFEX exercise: shooting and armored combat challenge 🇫🇷🇬🇧
 
➡️ 🇫🇷 soldiers integrated the allied maneuver led by the 🇬🇧 Battlegroup
 
💥Armored shooting challenge to celebrate International tank day as a grand finale

🎯 Air-to-air refueling and flights to support 🇮🇶 in the fight against ISIS resurgence
 
🌍 🇫🇷 and 🇮🇶 miliary partnership reflects a shared commitment to security and stability across the Middle East

📍Middle East | Joint 🇫🇷🇮🇶 air training
 
✈️ As part of Operation Inheret Resolve, French Rafale took part in the training of Iraqi Air defence controllers

🤝 Trustful bonds between our navies are based on common values and respect of international maritime law

🇫🇷🇮🇩 working together for a safe and stable indopacific area 🌏

📍Pacific ocean | Replenishment at sea drills between a 🇫🇷 patrol vessel and an 🇮🇩 frigate

⚓ Training our sailors and better their ability to operate #together and reinforce the links between French and Indonesian navy

📍Poland | Strengthening 🇺🇦 defence abilities #EUMAM mission 🇪🇺

🇫🇷 forces enforce 🇺🇦 troops skills with multi-domain combat expertise and command techniques

🎯 Upheld commitment to lasting peace and collective security in Europe by supporting Ukraine

📍Brittany | Armored raid in urban area - #ORION26 exercise
 
🛣️Urban maneuver, control of key routes and securing strategic locations
 
🎯Test armored units ability to lead offensive maneuvers in inhabited areas in the frame of ORION26' high intensity scenario

📍Lebanon | Securing the ground, protecting communities 💪
 
🤝 Along the Blue Line, French 🇫🇷 soldiers deployed with UNIFIL operate daily to : 
 
🔎Secure sensitive areas
💥Clear explosive remnants
🛡️Ensure a safe environment
 
Upheld commitment to lasting peace in southern Lebanon 🇱🇧

🤝Strengthening 🇩🇯🇫🇷 cooperation through training : #united for regional security

📍Djibouti | "Work hard, play hard" : desert field training for the 🇩🇯 forces
 
💪Djiboutian soldiers and internal security forces took part in a rigorous training led by the Desert combat and survival training center (CECAD) alongside French Forces in Djibouti

📍Romania | Tactical ground evolution with the 🇫🇷 soldiers

⚔️Troops disembarking from a GRIFFON armored vehicle followed by offensive ground progression and disengagement manœuvres

🛡️High level of operational readiness of the NATO Battlegroup in Romania for the defence of Europe's Eastern flank

🤝 A strong 🇨🇮🇫🇷 partnership strengthening mutual trust and regional security 🌍

📍Ivory Coast | 🇨🇮🇫🇷 paratroopers take it to new heights 🌤️

🪂 Ivorian and French forces training side by side and sharing their expertises: parachute jumps, assault landings on austere terrain, and exfiltration drills to sharpen their skills

🪖✈️⚓ The French Carrier Strike Group is part of a complex combined land/sea/air force within ORION26. One aim: deploy troops in a coalition in a high-intensity and realistic scenario

📍Atlantic Ocean | The 🇫🇷 carrier strike group is ready to fight within #ORION26 exercise ⚔️

⚓ The FS Charles de Gaulle and its carrier strike group sail in their area of operation

💪 The naval assets are #ready for surface, air and submarine warfare

📍French Guiana | Ongoing commitment of the French Forces against illegal gold mining ⚔️

In support of the internal security forces, the #HARPIE operation aims are:
👉 Fight against illegal gold mining
👉 Protection of the environment, our territory and our resources

Le commandement de la défense aérienne et des opérations aériennes s'apprête à transmettre son autorité à la composante maritime pour la poursuite de l’exercice.

🫡 La force aérienne reste déployée et maintient la supériorité aérienne acquise.

#ORION26 | Premier objectif atteint : acquérir la supériorité aérienne ✈️✅

➡️ Combinaison des moyens aériens l’armée de l’Air et de l’Espace et des nations partenaires 🇶🇦🇬🇷🇩🇪 pour des résultats opérationnels sur le terrain.

🤝 Testing the international command structure within the NATO multinational battalion while coordinating the involved allied forces

💪 Enhance the level of operational readiness of NATO allies: committed to the defence of Europe's Eastern flank

📍Romania | DYNAMICFRONT exercise: artillery warfare at its best for NATO's defence 🛡️

🔧 Realistic scenario including drone warfare and various artillery drills

📍Middle East | Training flights 🇫🇷🇮🇶

✈️ French Rafale contributed to the training of Iraqi Air defence controllers as part of operation Inherent Resolve

🎯 Support 🇮🇶 in the fight against ISIS resurgence

🌍 🇫🇷 and 🇮🇶 share the same commitment for the security and stability of the Middle East

📍French Guiana | Ariane 64 rocket under protection 🚀

🛡️French forces deployed land and air security around the French Guiana Space Centre within #TITAN operation

⚔️ Complementary commtiment with internal security forces to safeguard the launch and take part to 🇪🇺🇫🇷 space sovereignty 🌌

🕹️ Demanding flight conditions by night and with short-distance landings on the archipelagos' runways

🫴 Commitment of the French Forces for the benefit of the population

📍French Polynesia | Medical emergency on Pacific atolls: French Forces rise to the challenge 🏥

✈️ Evacuation of 4 civilians led by a CASA aircraft with an Emergency medical assistance team onboard

⚓ Three 🇱🇧 officers onboard the 🇫🇷 destroyer took part to the training

🇫🇷🤝🇱🇧 Strengthening trust and partnership at sea - deepening of our shared commitment to maritime security in the Mediterranean

📍Eastern Mediterranean | French and Lebanese Navy team up ⚓

🛟 Search&rescue exercise to boost coordination and sea rescue skills, involving a 🇫🇷 destroyer, 🇱🇧 patrol boats and a 🇱🇧 helicopter and the brand new Beirut Joint Rescue Coordination Center (JRCC)