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hero-in\">\n<div class=\"crumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/\">Order of Battle<\/a> &middot; France<\/div>\n<h1>French Air and Space Force<\/h1>\n<div class=\"native\">Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace<\/div>\n<p class=\"sub\">The Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace is the only air force in the European Union that carries its country&rsquo;s nuclear weapons, designs and builds its own fighter from radar to engine, and has flown an almost unbroken run of expeditionary campaigns since 1960 &mdash; roughly 180 combat aircraft, about 38,000 aviators and fifteen flying bases in metropolitan France, built around an argument the French call <em>souverainet&#233;<\/em>: that an air force which has to ask permission is not an air force at all.<\/p>\n<div class=\"marks\">\n<div class=\"mcol\">\n<div class=\"mark\"><svg class=\"rondel\" viewBox=\"0 0 100 100\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"French national marking: the cocarde, blue centre, white ring, red outer\"><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"49\" fill=\"#c8102e\"\/><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"32.7\" fill=\"#ffffff\"\/><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"16.3\" fill=\"#0d2a6b\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mk\">National marking<b>The cocarde &mdash; blue centre, white ring, red outer &mdash; in use since 1912<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mark\"><svg class=\"rondel\" viewBox=\"0 0 100 100\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Low-visibility grey cocarde\"><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"49\" fill=\"#6f7a8a\"\/><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"32.7\" fill=\"#aeb6c2\"\/><circle cx=\"50\" cy=\"50\" r=\"16.3\" fill=\"#6f7a8a\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"mk\">Low-visibility<b>Subdued grey or two-tone cocarde on Rafale and Mirage since the 1990s<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mark\"><svg class=\"finflash tall\" viewBox=\"0 0 40 48\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"French fin marking: the code 113-IX, wing or base number and aircraft letter\"><path d=\"M4 46 L15 6 H34 V46 Z\" fill=\"#39424f\"\/><path d=\"M15 6 H34 V14 H12.75 Z\" fill=\"#0d2a6b\"\/><rect x=\"15\" y=\"14.4\" width=\"19\" height=\"1.2\" fill=\"#c8102e\"\/><text x=\"24.5\" y=\"31\" text-anchor=\"middle\" font-family=\"Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif\" font-size=\"7.2\" font-weight=\"700\" fill=\"#ffffff\">113-IX<\/text><\/svg><span class=\"mk\">Unit marking<b>Squadron insignia on the fin and a code of wing number and aircraft letter on the fuselage, as in 3-XZ for the 3e escadre<\/b><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>138<\/b><span>Combat aircraft<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>26<\/b><span>Active air bases<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1934<\/b><span>Founded<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>30<\/b><span>Types retired<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"photocred\">Dylan Agbagni, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/div>\n<div class=\"accent\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\"><span class=\"chip\"><b>Country<\/b>France<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Founded<\/b>1934<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Status<\/b>Active<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Headquarters<\/b>Hexagone Balard, Paris<\/span><span class=\"chip\"><b>Commander<\/b>G&#233;n&#233;ral J&#233;r&#244;me Bellanger<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"mfshare\"><button type=\"button\" class=\"mfsh-btn\"><svg viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\"><circle cx=\"18\" cy=\"5\" r=\"3\"\/><circle cx=\"6\" cy=\"12\" r=\"3\"\/><circle cx=\"18\" cy=\"19\" r=\"3\"\/><path d=\"M8.6 10.6l6.8-4M8.6 13.4l6.8 4\"\/><\/svg>Share<\/button><span class=\"mfsh-net\"><\/span><span class=\"mfsh-said\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"story\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The story<\/div>\n<h2>The French Air and Space Force story: sovereignty, a nuclear missile and a fighter France builds itself<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">1909&ndash;1934: from the Ministry of Air to a service of its own<\/h3>\n<p>France invented military aviation as an institution before anyone else made it a service. The world&rsquo;s first military air unit was Captain Coutelle&rsquo;s balloon company of April 1794; the country bought its first military aeroplane in September 1909 and passed a law organising military aeronautics on 29 March 1912. The aviators of 1914&ndash;18 gave France the vocabulary the air force still uses &mdash; the <em>escadrille<\/em>, the <em>cigogne<\/em> painted on Guynemer&rsquo;s SPAD, the word <em>as<\/em> for an ace. But they belonged to the army. A Ministry of Air was created in 1928, a decree of 1 April 1933 gave the air arm its independence in principle, and the law of 2 July 1934 gave it an identity, a staff and a budget of its own. The Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air was ninety-one years old in 2025 and is one of the oldest independent air forces on earth &mdash; older than the Luftwaffe, older than the United States Air Force by thirteen years.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">1940&ndash;1945: six weeks of catastrophe, and a rebuilt air force that flew to Berlin<\/h3>\n<p>What happened next is the part French officers still teach. In May 1940 the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air was caught in the middle of a rearmament programme, with modern Dewoitine D.520s arriving in ones and twos alongside obsolete MS.406s and American Curtiss H-75 Hawks bought in a hurry. Its pilots fought hard &mdash; the Hawk squadrons ran up a positive exchange ratio against the Luftwaffe &mdash; and the campaign was lost anyway, in six weeks, for reasons that had more to do with command, concentration and spares than with courage. The service then split. Part of it flew for Vichy; part of it went to London and became the Forces a&#233;riennes fran&#231;aises libres. Groupe de chasse 1\/3 Alsace, the Normandie-Niemen regiment on the Eastern Front and the squadrons rebuilt in North Africa from November 1942 put French roundels back over Germany by 1945. The service came out of the war with a fixed conviction: never again be dependent on somebody else&rsquo;s aircraft, somebody else&rsquo;s decision, or somebody else&rsquo;s timetable.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">1954&ndash;1962: Indochina, Suez and Algeria &mdash; the wars that made the expeditionary habit<\/h3>\n<p>It also came out of the war into another one. From 1946 the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air flew in Indochina with borrowed and bought American types &mdash; Ju 52s, C-47s, Bearcats, B-26 Invaders &mdash; over a country where air power could resupply a garrison but could not save Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Two years later, French Myst&#232;re IVAs and F-84F Thunderstreaks flew the Suez operation from Cyprus and, more quietly, from Israeli airfields at Ramat David and Lod, wearing Israeli markings. Then came Algeria, eight years of counter-insurgency with T-6 Texans, Sikorsky and Vertol helicopters and improvised gunships, a campaign that taught the service close air support and cost it the loyalty of some of its own generals in the putsch of April 1961. By 1962 the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air had been at war continuously for sixteen years and had learned to deploy anywhere with what it could carry.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">1964&ndash;1996: the Mirage IV, the Plateau d&rsquo;Albion and a deterrent nobody else in Europe had<\/h3>\n<p>The deterrent changed everything. On 1 October 1964 the first Mirage IVA squadron stood up and France became the third country to put a nuclear bomb on a supersonic bomber of its own design. Nine squadrons across three wings, 36 aircraft on alert at any time, a tanker fleet of American C-135Fs bought precisely because nobody would sell France anything else, and a doctrine &mdash; <em>dissuasion du faible au fort<\/em> &mdash; that did not require parity with Moscow, only the certainty of unacceptable damage. Land-based missiles followed on the Plateau d&rsquo;Albion in 1971 and were scrapped in 1996; the Mirage IV handed the airborne strike role to the Mirage 2000N on 31 July 1996 and flew on as a reconnaissance aircraft until 2005. What survives is the Forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques, the air component of the deterrent, sixty years old in October 2024 and today two Rafale B squadrons at Saint-Dizier armed with the ASMPA-R missile, with the tankers at Istres that make the mission possible.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">1991&ndash;2022: Daguet, Harmattan, Serval &mdash; thirty years of going first<\/h3>\n<p>Since 1991 the pattern has been consistent enough to be a doctrine in itself: France goes early, goes with its own aircraft, and does not wait to be asked. Jaguars and Mirage 2000s flew Op&#233;ration Daguet in the Gulf in 1991. A Mirage 2000N was shot down over Pale on the first night of Deliberate Force in August 1995 and its crew spent 104 days as hostages. French aircraft flew roughly a tenth of the Kosovo campaign in 1999 and were the only European contingent to drop laser-guided weapons in quantity. On 19 March 2011 Rafales from Saint-Dizier fired the first shots of the entire Libyan intervention, hours before the American cruise missiles; France flew about a quarter of all NATO sorties in Harmattan and a third of the strikes. In January 2013 four Mirage 2000Ds from Chad and then Rafales flying 3,000 nautical miles direct from Saint-Dizier stopped a column moving on Bamako. Nine years later, in August 2022, the last French aircraft left Mali.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"sh\">2020&ndash;2026: all-Rafale, the space command, and a nuclear base being rebuilt at Luxeuil<\/h3>\n<p>The service that renamed itself the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace on 11 September 2020 is smaller, busier and more concentrated than the one that flew nine Mirage IV squadrons. It is converting to a single combat type: the last Mirage 2000C left Orange in June 2022, the fiftieth and final Mirage 2000D upgraded to RMV standard was handed over in July 2026, and the Mirage 2000-5F is down to a single squadron at Luxeuil and a handful at Djibouti after six went to Ukraine. The Rafale line, meanwhile, is the busiest it has ever been &mdash; and mostly for other people: Dassault delivered 26 in 2025, fifteen of them for export, and France has repeatedly given up its own delivery slots and sold second-hand airframes to Greece and Croatia to keep customers happy. The gap shows. A 2025 parliamentary hearing put it plainly: to meet its operational contracts the air force is flying its Rafales roughly 15 per cent beyond the hours the fleet was sized for. The answer, funded but slow, is the F4 standard now, the F5 and a stealthy combat drone descended from nEUROn by 2033, and a second nuclear base at Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur that will cost at least 1.5 billion euros and open in the 2030s &mdash; the first time since the Cold War that France has built new airfield infrastructure for nuclear-armed aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"pull\">What happened next is the part French officers still teach. In May 1940 the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air was caught in the middle of a rearmament programme, with modern Dewoitine D.520s arriving in ones and twos alongside obsolete MS.406s and American Curtiss H-75 Hawks bought in a hurry.<cite>French Air and Space Force &middot; verified 2026-09-13<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"glance\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">At a glance<\/div>\n<h2>The French Air and Space Force in numbers<\/h2>\n<div class=\"specgrid three\">\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Service<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Native name<\/dt>\n<dd>Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace<span class=\"gnote\">Motto <em>Faire face<\/em> &mdash; &quot;face up to it&quot; &mdash; taken from the Escadrille des Cigognes and Georges Guynemer. Renamed from Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air on 11 September 2020, when the space mission was added.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Founded<\/dt>\n<dd>2 July 1934<span class=\"gnote\">The law of 2 July 1934 made the air arm a service in its own right; a decree of 1 April 1933 had granted independence in principle, and the Ministry of Air dates from 1928. Lineage runs back to the balloon company of 1794 and the military aeronautics law of 29 March 1912.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Part of<\/dt>\n<dd>Forces arm&#233;es fran&#231;aises<span class=\"gnote\">One of three services alongside the Arm&#233;e de terre and the Marine nationale, plus the Gendarmerie nationale. Naval aviation (A&#233;ronautique navale) and army aviation (ALAT) are separate arms with their own aircraft.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Headquarters<\/dt>\n<dd>Hexagone Balard, Paris 15e<span class=\"gnote\">The air staff moved from the old Paris air base to the Balard site on 25 June 2015 and employs around 150 people there.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Major commands<\/dt>\n<dd>\n<ul class=\"gl\">\n<li>Commandement des forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques (CFAS) &mdash; the nuclear command, V&#233;lizy-Villacoublay<\/li>\n<li>Commandement des forces a&#233;riennes (CFA) &mdash; force generation and training, Bordeaux-M&#233;rignac<\/li>\n<li>Commandement de la d&#233;fense a&#233;rienne et des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes (CDAOA) &mdash; air defence and operations, Lyon-Mont Verdun<\/li>\n<li>Commandement de l&rsquo;espace (CDE) &mdash; space, Toulouse<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gnote\">Four great commands under the chief of staff at Balard, plus the human-resources directorate DRHAAE and the air expertise centre CEAM at Mont-de-Marsan.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Chief of staff<\/dt>\n<dd>G&#233;n&#233;ral d&rsquo;arm&#233;e a&#233;rienne J&#233;r&#244;me Bellanger<span class=\"gnote\">CEMAAE since September 2024. Mirage 2000 RDI pilot, 2,400 flying hours, 59 combat missions; previously commander of the Forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Strength<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Military personnel<\/dt>\n<dd>38,508<span class=\"gnote\">Full-time equivalents budgeted for the air force in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026, out of a ministry total of 264,720. The target set by the 2024&ndash;2030 planning law is 40,000 aviators by 2030.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Reserve<\/dt>\n<dd>about 6,000<span class=\"gnote\">Operational reservists of the air force reserve. France is expanding the reserve across all three services under the 2024&ndash;2030 planning law; the air force figure is not published monthly.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Combat aircraft<\/dt>\n<dd>184<\/p>\n<ul class=\"gl\">\n<li>Rafale B\/C &mdash; 112<\/li>\n<li>Mirage 2000D \/ 2000D RMV &mdash; 50<\/li>\n<li>Mirage 2000-5F &mdash; 22<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gnote\">The air force held 196 combat aircraft at 31 December 2023. The planning law targets 187 fighters for the air force by 2030 and 225 across the air force and the navy by 2035.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Total aircraft<\/dt>\n<dd>about 500<span class=\"gnote\">Combat, transport, tanker, surveillance, training and helicopter fleets together, plus ten MQ-9 Reapers. France does not publish a single audited total the way the United States does, so counts vary by a few dozen depending on what is included.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Budget<\/dt>\n<dd>&#8364;4.38 bn commitments \/ &#8364;3.76 bn payments<span class=\"gnote\">Programme 178 &quot;pr&#233;paration et emploi des forces &mdash; air&quot; in the 2026 finance bill, up from &#8364;3.33 bn and &#8364;3.53 bn in 2025. This is the air force&rsquo;s operating line only: equipment procurement sits in a separate programme and the aircraft themselves are bought by the DGA.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Flying rate<\/dt>\n<dd>roughly 15 per cent over<span class=\"gnote\">In July 2025 the air staff told parliament that meeting its operational contracts required flying the Rafale fleet about 15 per cent beyond the hours the fleet was sized for.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Infrastructure<\/h4>\n<dl>\n<dt>Air bases<\/dt>\n<dd>15 flying bases in metropolitan France<\/p>\n<ul class=\"gl\">\n<li>Plus four non-flying bases and detachments and several attached air elements<\/li>\n<li>Five overseas: La R&#233;union, Guyane, Martinique, Nouvelle-Cal&#233;donie, Polyn&#233;sie<\/li>\n<li>Two abroad: BA 188 Djibouti and BA 104 Al Dhafra, United Arab Emirates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"gnote\">France closed eleven metropolitan air bases between 2009 and 2021 and left its West and Central African bases between 2022 and 2025.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Quick Reaction Alert<\/dt>\n<dd>Permanent posture de s&#251;ret&#233; a&#233;rienne<span class=\"gnote\">Armed fighters and helicopters on alert around the clock at dispersed sites across metropolitan France and the overseas territories, controlled from the CNOA at Lyon-Mont Verdun. France scrambles for airspace violations and for slow-moving or non-communicating traffic, and reinforces the posture for events such as the 2024 Olympic Games.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Nuclear<\/dt>\n<dd>Two Rafale B squadrons at Saint-Dizier<span class=\"gnote\">The Forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques field the ASMPA-R stand-off missile on Rafale B, with tanker support from Istres. Two more nuclear Rafale squadrons are to stand up at Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur in the 2030s. The navy&rsquo;s carrier-borne Rafale M form a separate component, the FANu.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dt>Longest runway<\/dt>\n<dd>5,000 m at Istres-Le Tub&#233;<span class=\"gnote\">The longest runway in Europe and a NASA Space Shuttle contingency landing site; built for the Mirage IV and the flight-test centre.<\/span><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"structure\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Structure<\/div>\n<h2>How the French Air and Space Force is organised<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Four great commands under one chief of staff at Balard. <span class=\"imp\">The unusual one is CFAS, the Strategic Air Forces Command &mdash; no other air force in the European Union owns nuclear weapons, and France gave the space mission to the air force rather than creating a separate service for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"org\">\n<div class=\"cmdcard\"><span class=\"cface mono\">GJ<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"cmdtx\"><span class=\"crank\">G&#233;n&#233;ral d&rsquo;arm&#233;e a&#233;rienne<\/span><b>G&#233;n&#233;ral J&#233;r&#244;me Bellanger<\/b><span class=\"cmeta\">Chef d&rsquo;&#233;tat-major de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace (CEMAAE) &middot; in office since 2024<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"cmdorg\"><span>&#201;tat-major de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace<\/span><em>Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgrow\">\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Staff<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>&#201;tat-major de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">EMAAE<\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">Hexagone Balard, Paris<\/div>\n<p>The chief of staff and the air staff at Balard: doctrine, programme, budget and the interface to the joint chief of the defence staff. About 150 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Nuclear<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Commandement des forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">CFAS<\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">V&#233;lizy-Villacoublay<\/div>\n<p>The airborne component of the nuclear deterrent: two Rafale B squadrons at Saint-Dizier with the ASMPA-R missile and the tanker squadrons at Istres. Created in 1964 with the Mirage IV.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Force generation<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Commandement des forces a&#233;riennes<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">CFA<\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">Bordeaux-M&#233;rignac<\/div>\n<p>Generates, trains and prepares the flying units &mdash; fighter, transport, helicopter and drone &mdash; and owns the training pipeline from Salon-de-Provence to Cognac and Cazaux.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Operations<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Commandement de la d&#233;fense a&#233;rienne et des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">CDAOA<\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">Lyon-Mont Verdun<\/div>\n<p>Air defence of French territory and the planning and conduct of air operations, through the national air operations centre buried inside the Mont Verdun.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Space<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Commandement de l&rsquo;espace<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">CDE<\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">Toulouse<\/div>\n<p>Military space: surveillance of the orbital environment, satellite operations and space situational awareness. Created in September 2019, a year before the service took the word &quot;space&quot; into its own name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Trials<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Centre d&rsquo;expertise a&#233;rienne militaire<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">CEAM<\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">Mont-de-Marsan<\/div>\n<p>Operational test and evaluation, weapons clearance and tactics development for every type in the air force, with its own trials squadrons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">People<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Direction des ressources humaines de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">DRHAAE<\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">Tours, then Balard<\/div>\n<p>Recruitment, careers and training policy for about 38,000 military personnel and 5,000 civilians, working to a target of 40,000 aviators by 2030.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Academy<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">EAE<\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">Salon-de-Provence<\/div>\n<p>The officer academy, a degree-awarding grande &#233;cole since 2021, together with the Patrouille de France and the competition aerobatic team.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Training<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>&#201;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de chasse 00.315<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">EAC 315<\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">Cognac-Ch&#226;teaubernard<\/div>\n<p>The fighter pilot pipeline: 26 Pilatus PC-21 and 16 Grob G 120 that train every French fighter pilot and weapons systems officer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"orgcard\"><span class=\"tag\">Drones<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>33e escadre de surveillance, de reconnaissance et d&rsquo;attaque<\/h4>\n<div class=\"de\">33e ESRA<\/div>\n<div class=\"oloc\">Cognac-Ch&#226;teaubernard<\/div>\n<p>Every armed drone France owns: twelve MQ-9 Reapers and the King Air ALSR light intelligence aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"fleet\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">In service<\/div>\n<h2>What the French Air and Space Force flies today<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Every type on charge, linked to its Book of Beasts page where one exists. <span class=\"imp\">Counts are aircraft on the books, not aircraft available on a given day.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"tscroll\">\n<table class=\"oobt fleet\">\n<colgroup>\n<col class=\"c-th\">\n<col class=\"c-type\">\n<col class=\"c-role\">\n<col class=\"c-num\">\n<col class=\"c-yr\">\n<col class=\"c-units\">\n<col><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Role<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align:right\">In service<\/th>\n<th>Since<\/th>\n<th>Units<\/th>\n<th>Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph2\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale B\/C<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Omnirole fighter: air defence, strike, reconnaissance and nuclear delivery<\/td>\n<td>112<\/td>\n<td>2006<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>112 with the air force at 31 December 2025 (Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026, published 10 September 2026), up from 105 a year earlier. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The DGA received 11 Rafale for the air force during 2025; the fleet grew by only seven because aircraft continue to be drawn off for export contracts.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph3\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000D \/ 2000D RMV<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical strike and close air support<\/td>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<td>1993<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>50 at 31 December 2025 in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026, down from 55 a year earlier. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>All 50 have been through the RMV mid-life upgrade; the fiftieth and last was handed over on 1 July 2026, which closed the programme.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph4\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000-5F<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Air defence and air policing<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>1999<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>About 22. The Chiffres cl&#233;s de la d&#233;fense 2025 gives 23; opex360 reported 28 in service before six were transferred to Ukraine from February 2025. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span><\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph5\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Air-to-air refuelling and strategic transport<\/td>\n<td>13<\/td>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>13 at 31 December 2025 in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026; the target is 15 by 2028. The two outstanding aircraft are second-hand A330 airliners being converted to the MRTT standard.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph6\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus A400M Atlas<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical and strategic airlift<\/td>\n<td>25<\/td>\n<td>2013<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>25 delivered; the twenty-fifth arrived in January 2026 and two more are programmed for 2026. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>France has ordered 50 in total and the 2024&ndash;2030 planning law targets 35 by 2030, a figure the air force has since said it wants to push higher.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph7\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Lockheed Martin C-130J-30 \/ KC-130J Super Hercules<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical airlift and helicopter refuelling<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Four: two C-130J-30 transports and two KC-130J tankers, delivered from 2018.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph8\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Lockheed C-130H \/ C-130H-30 Hercules<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical airlift<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>1987<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>12 at 31 December 2025 in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026 &mdash; nine C-130H and three renovated &mdash; down from 14 a year earlier. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Bought from 1987 and being withdrawn as A400M deliveries accelerate.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph9\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus CN235-200\/300 Casa<span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Light tactical transport<\/td>\n<td>27<\/td>\n<td>1993<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>27 in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la d&#233;fense 2025 &mdash; the largest single fleet of aircraft the air force owns after the Rafale.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph10\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus A330-200<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Strategic and government transport<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>2010<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Three, including the presidential aircraft. Separate from the twelve A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph11\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Dassault Falcon 900 EASy<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Government and liaison transport<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>1987<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Four, with an updated Falcon 900 EASy standard entering service from 2025 in place of the Falcon 2000.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph12\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Dassault Falcon 7X<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Government transport<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>2009<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Two, in service since 2009.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph13\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Boeing E-3F Sentry<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airborne early warning and control<\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>1991<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Four, bought in 1990 and upgraded to a Block 40\/45-equivalent standard. A successor is planned for the early 2030s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph14\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Beechcraft King Air 350ER ALSR<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Light intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>2020<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Two in service under the ALSR programme, known in French service as VADOR; a third has been ordered.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph15\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Armed medium-altitude long-endurance surveillance<\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>2013<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>12 at 31 December 2025 in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026, in Block 1 and Block 5 Extended Range configurations; the Block 5 ER was declared operational on 19 December 2024.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph16\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Advanced and operational conversion training; display flying<\/td>\n<td>42<\/td>\n<td>1979<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>42 at 31 December 2025 in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026, down from 47 a year earlier; in service since 1979.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph17\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Pilatus PC-21<span class=\"nflag nf2\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Switzerland\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Advanced turboprop fighter-pilot training<\/td>\n<td>26<\/td>\n<td>2018<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>26 bought in two batches; the second order of nine, announced in July 2021, completed the fleet.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph18\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Grob G 120A-F<span class=\"nflag nf3\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Germany\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Elementary flying training<\/td>\n<td>16<\/td>\n<td>2010<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>16 at Cognac, operated under contract alongside the PC-21.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph19\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Embraer EMB-121 Xingu<span class=\"nflag nf9\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Brazil\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Multi-engine and navigator training, liaison<\/td>\n<td>22<\/td>\n<td>1983<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>22 at 31 December 2025 in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026, down from 27 a year earlier &mdash; the oldest fleet in the air force, bought in 1983 and now being run down. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The DGA issued a tender to replace it in June 2025.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph20\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Socata TBM 700<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Liaison and light transport<\/td>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>1992<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>15 in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la d&#233;fense 2025.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph21\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter<span class=\"nflag nf1\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Canada\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Light transport and parachute training<\/td>\n<td>5<\/td>\n<td>1978<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Five, the oldest of them delivered in 1978.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph22\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Extra EA-330SC<span class=\"nflag nf3\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in Germany\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Aerobatic display<\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>2011<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Three flown by the &#201;quipe de voltige de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace at Salon-de-Provence.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph23\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Combat search and rescue, special operations<\/td>\n<td>17<\/td>\n<td>2006<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>17 with the air force at 31 December 2025 (Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026), against 13 a year earlier. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Four of the eight ordered in April 2021 have been handed over &mdash; two on 20 December 2024 and two during 2025 &mdash; so four remain. The published stock and delivery figures do not reconcile exactly: 13 plus two deliveries is 15, not 17.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph24\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Helicopters AS555 Fennec<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Air policing, training and liaison<\/td>\n<td>40<\/td>\n<td>1988<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>40 in air force service, delivered from 1988.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph25\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Helicopters SA330 Puma \/ AS332 Super Puma<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical and utility transport<\/td>\n<td>15<\/td>\n<td>1974<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>15 Puma and Super Puma at 31 December 2025 in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026, down from 21 a year earlier as the SA330 Puma is withdrawn. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The Puma entered air force service on 2 May 1974.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph26\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Helicopters H225 (EC225)<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st on\">In service<\/span><\/td>\n<td>Transport and search and rescue<\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>2016<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>Two civil-standard H225s taken on in 2016 to cover a shortfall.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"fleetchart\">\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Rafale<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:100%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">112<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">M2000D<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:45%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">50<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Alpha Jet<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:38%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">42<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">Fennec<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:36%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">40<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">CN-235<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:24%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">27<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">PC-21<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:23%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">26<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">A400M<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:22%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">25<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"frow\"><span class=\"fname\">M2000-5<\/span><span class=\"fbar\"><i style=\"width:20%\"><\/i><\/span><span class=\"fnum\">22<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>On order<\/h3>\n<div class=\"tscroll\">\n<table class=\"oobt fleet ord\">\n<colgroup>\n<col class=\"c-th\">\n<col class=\"c-type\">\n<col class=\"c-num\">\n<col class=\"c-fd\">\n<col><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Ordered<\/th>\n<th>First delivery<\/th>\n<th>Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph27\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale F4 (tranche 5)<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>42<\/td>\n<td>2027<\/td>\n<td>Ordered on 12 January 2024 for more than &#8364;5 billion, spread across 400 companies and about 7,000 jobs. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Deliveries run from 2027 in the F4 standard, which brings the Contact radio network, MICA NG missiles and a digital jammer integrated into the SPECTRA self-protection suite. In July 2026 the ministry confirmed that 20 of the 42 would slip from 2031&ndash;32 to 2033&ndash;34 and be built directly to the F5 standard. Dassault&rsquo;s order book at the end of 2025 held 45 Rafale for France and 175 for export.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph28\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale F5<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>20<\/td>\n<td>2033<\/td>\n<td>The standard that will carry the ASN4G hypersonic nuclear missile from about 2035, replacing the ASMPA-R, and that will fly with the new stealth combat drone. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>Twenty of the tranche 5 aircraft are being deferred so they can be built as F5s rather than upgraded later. Two F5 squadrons are to be based at Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph29\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Dassault UCAV (nEUROn-derived combat drone)<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>2033<\/td>\n<td>Launched by the DGA on 8 October 2024 at Saint-Dizier, at the sixtieth anniversary of the Forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>A stealthy, internally-armed unmanned combat aircraft built on the nEUROn demonstrator, which first flew in December 2012 and has since made more than 170 test flights. It is to fly with the Rafale F5 after 2030, with full operational capability targeted for 2033. No production quantity has been announced.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph6\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus A400M Atlas<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>25<\/td>\n<td>2026<\/td>\n<td>France has ordered 50 in total and had 25 in January 2026, with two more due in 2026. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The 2024&ndash;2030 planning law sets 35 by 2030; a French-Spanish letter of intent signed at Le Bourget in June 2025 keeps the Seville line running to the end of 2028. The air force has since indicated it wants to go beyond 35 and retire the C-130H earlier.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph5\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>2026<\/td>\n<td>Two more to reach the target fleet of 15, which the ministry expects to have complete by 2028. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>They are second-hand A330 airliners being converted to the MRTT standard rather than new-build aircraft.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph30\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Dassault Falcon 8X Archange<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>3<\/td>\n<td>2026<\/td>\n<td>Three aircraft under the CUGE programme to restore the signals-intelligence capability lost when the two C-160G Gabriels retired. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The first Archange flew on 26 July 2025 and an aircraft in the markings of the escadron &#233;lectronique 5\/64 Dunkerque was seen at Bordeaux-M&#233;rignac in June 2026. The aircraft will be based at &#201;vreux.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph23\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>4<\/td>\n<td>2026<\/td>\n<td>Four remaining from the eight-aircraft order placed in April 2021: two were delivered on 20 December 2024 and two more during 2025. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>France&rsquo;s stated ambition is a combat search and rescue fleet in the thirties by the mid-2030s.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph31\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Beechcraft King Air 350ER ALSR (VADOR)<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>1<\/td>\n<td>2026<\/td>\n<td>A third light ISR aircraft to join the two already flying with the 33e escadre at Cognac.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph32\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Airbus Eurodrone<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>12<\/td>\n<td>2031<\/td>\n<td>France&rsquo;s share of the four-nation MALE programme is four systems of three aircraft. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>The programme is late: first flight has moved from 2025 to 2028 and entry into service to 2031, and in 2026 General Bellanger publicly described it as five years behind. France says it remains committed but has put no money for its own aircraft in the current planning law and is studying cheaper national alternatives drawn from Ukrainian and Iranian practice. Treat both the quantity and the date as unsettled.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph33\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Next-Generation Fighter (SCAF \/ FCAS)<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>0<\/td>\n<td>2040<\/td>\n<td>The Franco-German-Spanish sixth-generation programme, intended to replace the Rafale from about 2040. <\/p>\n<details class=\"ndet\">\n<summary>More<\/summary>\n<p><span>It is stalled: Germany&rsquo;s deadline of mid-April 2026 for a decision on the next phase passed without one, and the dispute between Dassault and Airbus over work share, intellectual property and whether the aircraft must be carrier-capable and nuclear-capable remains unresolved. No aircraft is on order and no demonstrator date is confirmed.<\/span><\/details>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph34\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Saab GlobalEye<span class=\"st ord\">On order<\/span><\/td>\n<td>2<\/td>\n<td>2029<\/td>\n<td>Ordered on 30 December 2025 for just over 1.1 billion euros, with an option on two more, to replace the four E-3F Sentry. Deliveries are planned between 2029 and 2032.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"former\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Formerly operated<\/div>\n<h2>Every type the French Air and Space Force has retired<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">30 types, from the Nieuport 11 B&#233;b&#233; to the Boeing C-135F \/ C-135FR Stratotanker. <span class=\"imp\">Peak figures are airframes taken on charge over the whole service life, not fleet strength on any one date.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"tscroll\">\n<table class=\"oobt fleet former\">\n<colgroup>\n<col class=\"c-th\">\n<col class=\"c-type\">\n<col class=\"c-role\">\n<col class=\"c-num\">\n<col class=\"c-srv\">\n<col class=\"c-rep\">\n<col><\/colgroup>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th><\/th>\n<th>Type<\/th>\n<th>Role<\/th>\n<th style=\"text-align:right\">Peak<\/th>\n<th>Served<\/th>\n<th>Replaced by<\/th>\n<th>Notes<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph35\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Boeing C-135F \/ C-135FR Stratotanker<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Air-to-air refuelling<\/td>\n<td>11<\/td>\n<td>1964&ndash;2023<\/td>\n<td>Airbus A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix<\/td>\n<td>Twelve C-135F bought in 1964 for the Mirage IV, reduced to eleven after a loss at sea in 1972 and re-engined as C-135FR between 1984 and 1989.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph36\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\" class=\"was\">Dassault Mirage 2000C \/ 2000B RDI<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Air defence interceptor<\/td>\n<td>124<\/td>\n<td>1984&ndash;2022<\/td>\n<td>Rafale C and Mirage 2000-5F<\/td>\n<td>124 Mirage 2000C and 30 two-seat Mirage 2000B for the French air force, in service from 1984.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph37\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Transall C-160 \/ C-160NG \/ C-160G Gabriel<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical airlift, signals intelligence and communications relay<\/td>\n<td>78<\/td>\n<td>1967&ndash;2022<\/td>\n<td>A400M Atlas<\/td>\n<td>78 airframes for France: 50 C-160F plus three pre-production, 25 C-160NG, of which two became C-160G Gabriel signals-intelligence aircraft and four C-160H Astart&#233; relays.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph38\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\" class=\"was\">Dassault Mirage 2000N<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Nuclear strike<\/td>\n<td>75<\/td>\n<td>1988&ndash;2018<\/td>\n<td>Rafale B with ASMPA<\/td>\n<td>75 built for the pre-strategic and then strategic nuclear mission, carrying first the ASMP and then the ASMP-A.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-mirage-f1\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph39\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-mirage-f1\/\" class=\"was\">Dassault Mirage F1 C\/CT\/CR<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Interception, ground attack and tactical reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>246<\/td>\n<td>1973&ndash;2014<\/td>\n<td>Rafale and Mirage 2000D<\/td>\n<td>246 delivered to the French air force from 1973 &mdash; F1C interceptors, F1CT attack conversions and F1CR reconnaissance aircraft.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iv\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph40\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iv\/\" class=\"was\">Dassault Mirage IV A\/P<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Supersonic nuclear bomber, later strategic reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>62<\/td>\n<td>1964&ndash;2005<\/td>\n<td>Mirage 2000N in the nuclear role, Rafale in reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>62 production aircraft plus four prototypes, built between 1963 and 1968; 36 on alert at any time out of an active force rotated with 26 reserve aircraft.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sepecat-jaguar\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph41\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sepecat-jaguar\/\" class=\"was\">SEPECAT Jaguar A\/E<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical strike and pre-strategic nuclear attack<\/td>\n<td>200<\/td>\n<td>1973&ndash;2005<\/td>\n<td>Rafale and Mirage 2000D<\/td>\n<td>160 single-seat Jaguar A and 40 two-seat Jaguar E for France, from 1973.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fouga-magister\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph42\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fouga-magister\/\" class=\"was\">Fouga CM.170 Magister<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Basic and advanced jet training<\/td>\n<td>400<\/td>\n<td>1956&ndash;1996<\/td>\n<td>Alpha Jet<\/td>\n<td>About 400 in French service from 1956, built at Toulouse.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iii\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph43\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iii\/\" class=\"was\">Dassault Mirage III C\/E\/B\/R<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Interception, strike and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>500<\/td>\n<td>1961&ndash;1994<\/td>\n<td>Mirage 2000 and Mirage F1<\/td>\n<td>Roughly 500 of all French marks including the Mirage IIIC interceptor, IIIE fighter-bomber, IIIB trainer and IIIR reconnaissance variants.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph44\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Dassault Mirage 5F<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Visual ground attack<\/td>\n<td>50<\/td>\n<td>1972&ndash;1994<\/td>\n<td>Mirage 2000<\/td>\n<td>Fifty aircraft originally built for Israel, embargoed in 1967 and taken into French service from 1972.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph45\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Nord Noratlas N.2501<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Tactical airlift and paratroop transport<\/td>\n<td>210<\/td>\n<td>1953&ndash;1989<\/td>\n<td>Transall C-160<\/td>\n<td>About 210 for France of 425 built.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mystere-iv\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph46\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mystere-iv\/\" class=\"was\">Dassault Myst&#232;re IVA<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter-bomber, later advanced trainer<\/td>\n<td>325<\/td>\n<td>1955&ndash;1982<\/td>\n<td>Super Myst&#232;re and Mirage III<\/td>\n<td>About 325 for France, part-funded by American offshore procurement money.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph47\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Sud-Ouest SO.4050 Vautour II<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Bomber, night fighter and attack<\/td>\n<td>140<\/td>\n<td>1958&ndash;1979<\/td>\n<td>Mirage IV and Mirage III<\/td>\n<td>About 140 for France in three versions: IIA attack, IIB bomber and IIN night fighter.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph48\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>North American F-100D\/F Super Sabre<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter-bomber<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<td>1958&ndash;1978<\/td>\n<td>Jaguar<\/td>\n<td>About 100 supplied under American military aid from 1958.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/super-mystere\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph49\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/super-mystere\/\" class=\"was\">Dassault Super Myst&#232;re B2<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter-bomber<\/td>\n<td>180<\/td>\n<td>1957&ndash;1977<\/td>\n<td>Mirage III and Jaguar<\/td>\n<td>About 180 built, the first European production aircraft able to exceed Mach 1 in level flight.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/t-33-shooting-star\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph50\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/t-33-shooting-star\/\" class=\"was\">Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star \/ Silver Star<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Jet transition training and liaison<\/td>\n<td>200<\/td>\n<td>1951&ndash;1976<\/td>\n<td>Fouga Magister and Alpha Jet<\/td>\n<td>Around 200 T-33A and Canadian-built Silver Stars supplied from 1951 under American military aid.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/english-electric-canberra\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph51\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/english-electric-canberra\/\" class=\"was\">English Electric Canberra B.6<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Bomber, later flight test and electronic warfare<\/td>\n<td>6<\/td>\n<td>1954&ndash;1972<\/td>\n<td>Vautour and Mirage IV<\/td>\n<td>Six Canberra B.6 bought from Britain in 1954.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph52\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Republic F-84F Thunderstreak \/ F-84G Thunderjet<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter-bomber<\/td>\n<td>335<\/td>\n<td>1952&ndash;1967<\/td>\n<td>Mirage III and Myst&#232;re IV<\/td>\n<td>About 335 F-84F Thunderstreaks plus F-84G Thunderjets, delivered under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program from 1952.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph53\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Douglas B-26 Invader<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Light bomber<\/td>\n<td>110<\/td>\n<td>1951&ndash;1963<\/td>\n<td>Vautour<\/td>\n<td>More than a hundred supplied from 1951, most for Indochina.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-ouragan\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph54\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-ouragan\/\" class=\"was\">Dassault MD.450 Ouragan<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter-bomber<\/td>\n<td>350<\/td>\n<td>1952&ndash;1961<\/td>\n<td>Myst&#232;re IV<\/td>\n<td>About 350 built, roughly 250 of them for the French air force. The first jet fighter designed and built in France to enter mass production.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-vampire\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph55\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-vampire\/\" class=\"was\">SNCASE Mistral (de Havilland Vampire)<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter-bomber<\/td>\n<td>250<\/td>\n<td>1949&ndash;1961<\/td>\n<td>Ouragan and Myst&#232;re IV<\/td>\n<td>About 250 Vampires and French-built Mistrals, the latter with a Rolls-Royce Nene built under licence by Hispano-Suiza.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/p-51-mustang\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph56\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/p-51-mustang\/\" class=\"was\">North American P-51D Mustang<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter and fighter-bomber<\/td>\n<td>100<\/td>\n<td>1945&ndash;1954<\/td>\n<td>Ouragan and F-84<\/td>\n<td>About 100 supplied to French units from 1945, some flying reconnaissance in Indochina.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"tthumb ph57\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Dewoitine D.520<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>437<\/td>\n<td>1940&ndash;1953<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>437 delivered by June 1940 of 2,200 ordered; production continued under Vichy and the type served in training roles until 1953.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/amiot-143\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb none\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/amiot-143\/\" class=\"was\">Amiot 143<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Night bomber<\/td>\n<td>138<\/td>\n<td>1935&ndash;1944<\/td>\n<td>Bloch 174 and Lend-Lease types<\/td>\n<td>138 built; obsolete by 1939 and still in front-line service in May 1940.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/morane-saulnier-ms-406\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph58\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/morane-saulnier-ms-406\/\" class=\"was\">Morane-Saulnier MS.406<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>1,000<\/td>\n<td>1938&ndash;1940<\/td>\n<td>Dewoitine D.520<\/td>\n<td>About 1,000 in service in May 1940 &mdash; the most numerous French fighter of the campaign, and the most outclassed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/curtiss-p-36-hawk\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph59\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/curtiss-p-36-hawk\/\" class=\"was\">Curtiss H-75 Hawk<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>291<\/td>\n<td>1939&ndash;1940<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>291 delivered to France before the armistice out of about 1,000 ordered in a hurry from 1938.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/breguet-19\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph60\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/breguet-19\/\" class=\"was\">Breguet 19<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Light bomber and reconnaissance<\/td>\n<td>2,000<\/td>\n<td>1924&ndash;1940<\/td>\n<td>Amiot 143 and Bloch 174<\/td>\n<td>Around 2,000 built for France and for export between 1924 and the mid-1930s.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/potez-25\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph61\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/potez-25\/\" class=\"was\">Potez 25<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Reconnaissance and light bomber<\/td>\n<td>4,000<\/td>\n<td>1925&ndash;1940<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>About 4,000 built in 87 variants for 20 countries.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/spad-xiii\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph62\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/spad-xiii\/\" class=\"was\">SPAD S.XIII<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>8,472<\/td>\n<td>1917&ndash;1923<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>8,472 built, more than 4,000 of them for the French air service.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/nieuport-11\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\"><span class=\"tthumb ph63\"><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/nieuport-11\/\" class=\"was\">Nieuport 11 B&#233;b&#233;<\/a><span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/td>\n<td>Fighter<\/td>\n<td>1,200<\/td>\n<td>1916&ndash;1917<\/td>\n<td>SPAD S.VII<\/td>\n<td>About 1,200 built from 1916.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"bases\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Air bases<\/div>\n<h2>Where the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace flies from, at home and overseas<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Black pins are active bases, hollow pins the ones France has closed or handed back. <span class=\"imp\">Eleven metropolitan air bases closed between 2009 and 2021, and between 2022 and 2025 France left every permanent base it held in West and Central Africa. Djibouti is what remains.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"mapframe\">\n<div id=\"oobmap\" class=\"oobmap\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"legend\"><span><i class=\"dot\"><\/i> Active air base<\/span><span><i class=\"dot was\"><\/i> Closed or reserve<\/span><span>Click a pin to open the base page<\/span><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"mapsub\">Metropolitan France<\/h3>\n<p class=\"mapnote\">10 of the 40 bases above sit outside metropolitan France, so the world map has to pull back until the home airfields cannot be told apart. The same pins again, without the overseas bases.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mapframe\">\n<div id=\"oobmap2\" class=\"oobmap home\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"oob2-data\" 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unis \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 104 Al Dhafra<span>United Arab Emirates<\/span><\/td>\n<td>OMAM<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>13L\/31R<\/span>3,661 m<\/span><span><span>13R\/31L<\/span>3,661 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de chasse 1\/7 Provence<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale C<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Escadron de chasse 3\/30 Lorraine<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale C<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Escadron de chasse 1\/2 Cigognes<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000-5F<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-105-evreux\" data-base=\"ba-105-evreux\" data-x=\"active active 62e escadre de transport \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 105 &#201;vreux-Fauville<span>Eure<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFOE<\/td>\n<td><span 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700<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron d&rsquo;h&#233;licopt&#232;res 3\/67 Parisis<\/span>: <span>Airbus Helicopters AS332 Super Puma, Airbus Helicopters AS555 Fennec<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-110-creil\" data-base=\"ba-110-creil\" data-x=\"active active Commandement de la d&#233;fense a&#233;rienne et des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes (CDAOA) \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 110 Creil<span>Oise<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFPC<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>08\/26<\/span>2,440 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Centre de formation et d&rsquo;interpr&#233;tation interarm&#233;es de l&rsquo;imagerie<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Escadron de transport 3\/60 Est&#233;rel<\/span>: <span>Douglas DC-8, Airbus A310, Airbus A340<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-113-saint-dizier\" data-base=\"ba-113-saint-dizier\" data-x=\"active active 4e escadre de chasse \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-113-saint-dizier\/\">Base a&#233;rienne 113 Saint-Dizier-Robinson<\/a><span>Haute-Marne<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFSI<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>11\/29<\/span>2,412 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de chasse 1\/4 Gascogne<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale B<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de chasse 2\/4 La Fayette<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale B<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de transformation Rafale 3\/4 Aquitaine<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale B\/C<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de soutien technique a&#233;ronautique 15\/004 &ldquo;Haute-Marne&rdquo;<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Escadron de chasse 1\/7 Provence<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale 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2000B\/C<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-mirage-f1\/\">Dassault Mirage F1C<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iii\/\">Dassault Mirage IIIC<\/a>, Supermarine Spitfire<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-116-luxeuil\" data-base=\"ba-116-luxeuil\" data-x=\"active active 2e escadre de chasse \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 116 Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur<span>Haute-Sa&#244;ne<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFSX<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>11\/29<\/span>2,433 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de chasse 1\/2 Cigognes<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000-5F<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Rafale squadron (RAF7)<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale F5<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Rafale squadron (RAF8)<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale F5<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-118-mont-de-marsan\" data-base=\"ba-118-mont-de-marsan\" data-x=\"active active 30e escadre de chasse and the Centre d&rsquo;expertise a&#233;rienne militaire (CEAM) \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-118-mont-de-marsan\/\">Base a&#233;rienne 118 Mont-de-Marsan<\/a><span>Landes<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFBM<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>09\/27<\/span>3,603 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>R&#233;giment de chasse 2\/30 Normandie-Niemen<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale C<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de chasse 3\/30 Lorraine<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale C<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de chasse 1\/30 C&#244;te d&rsquo;Argent<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Rafale B\/C<\/a>, Mirage 2000D, Alpha Jet, TBM 700<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Centre d&rsquo;expertise a&#233;rienne militaire<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000D<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet<\/a>, General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Escadron de reconnaissance 2\/33 Savoie<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-mirage-f1\/\">Dassault Mirage F1CR<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-120-cazaux\" data-base=\"ba-120-cazaux\" data-x=\"active active 8e escadre de chasse \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 120 Cazaux<span>Gironde<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFBC<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>06\/24<\/span>2,398 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de transition op&#233;rationnelle 1\/8 Saintonge<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de transition op&#233;rationnelle 2\/8 Nice<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron d&rsquo;entra&#238;nement 3\/8 C&#244;te d&rsquo;Or<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron d&rsquo;h&#233;licopt&#232;res 1\/67 Pyr&#233;n&#233;es<\/span>: <span>Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>No. 150 Squadron, Republic of Singapore Air Force<\/span>: <span>Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-123-orleans-bricy\" data-base=\"ba-123-orleans-bricy\" data-x=\"active active 61e escadre de transport \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 123 Orl&#233;ans-Bricy<span>Loiret<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFOJ<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>07\/25<\/span>2,404 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de transport 1\/61 Touraine<\/span>: <span>Airbus A400M Atlas<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de transport 4\/61 B&#233;arn<\/span>: <span>Airbus A400M Atlas<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de transport 3\/61 Poitou<\/span>: <span>Airbus A400M Atlas, De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de transport 2\/61 Franche-Comt&#233;<\/span>: <span>Lockheed C-130H \/ C-130H-30 Hercules<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Centre d&rsquo;instruction des &#233;quipages de transport 00.340<\/span>: <span>Airbus A400M Atlas, Lockheed C-130H Hercules<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-125-istres\" data-base=\"ba-125-istres\" data-x=\"active active 31e escadre a&#233;rienne de ravitaillement et de transport strat&#233;giques \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-125-istres\/\">Base a&#233;rienne 125 Istres-Le Tub&#233;<\/a><span>Bouches-du-Rh&#244;ne<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFMI<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>15\/33<\/span>3,750 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de ravitaillement en vol et de transport strat&#233;giques 1\/31 Bretagne<\/span>: <span>Airbus A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de ravitaillement en vol et de transport strat&#233;giques 2\/31 Est&#233;rel<\/span>: <span>Airbus A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de transformation Ph&#233;nix 3\/31 Landes<\/span>: <span>Airbus A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>&#201;cole du personnel navigant d&rsquo;essais et de r&#233;ception<\/span>: <span>Various trials aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de d&#233;fense sol-air 01.950 Crau<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Escadron de ravitaillement en vol 4\/31 Sologne<\/span>: <span>C-135FR Stratotanker, KC-135RG Stratotanker<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-126-solenzara\" data-base=\"ba-126-solenzara\" data-x=\"active active Base a&#233;rienne 126 \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 126 Solenzara<span>Corse-du-Sud<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFKS<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>18\/36<\/span>2,627 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron d&rsquo;h&#233;licopt&#232;res 1\/44 Solenzara<\/span>: <span>Airbus Helicopters AS332 Super Puma, Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de d&#233;fense sol-air<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-133-nancy-ochey\" data-base=\"ba-133-nancy-ochey\" data-x=\"active active 3e escadre de chasse \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 133 Nancy-Ochey<span>Meurthe-et-Moselle<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFSO<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>02\/20<\/span>2,400 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de chasse 1\/3 Navarre<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000D RMV<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de chasse 2\/3 Champagne<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000D RMV<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de chasse 3\/3 Ardennes<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000D RMV<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-186-noumea\" data-base=\"ba-186-noumea\" data-x=\"active active Forces arm&#233;es de la Nouvelle-Cal&#233;donie \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 186 Noum&#233;a-La Tontouta<span>Nouvelle-Cal&#233;donie<\/span><\/td>\n<td>NWWW<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>11\/29<\/span>3,250 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de transport 52 Tontouta<\/span>: <span>Airbus CN235, Airbus Helicopters SA330 Puma<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-188-djibouti\" data-base=\"ba-188-djibouti\" data-x=\" active Forces fran&#231;aises stationn&#233;es &#224; Djibouti \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 188 Djibouti<span>Djibouti<\/span><\/td>\n<td>HDAM<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>09\/27<\/span>3,150 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de chasse 3\/11 Corse<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000-5F<\/a>, Dassault Mirage 2000D RMV<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de transport 88 Larzac<\/span>: <span>Airbus CN235<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>D&#233;tachement h&#233;licopt&#232;res<\/span>: <span>Airbus Helicopters SA330 Puma<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-278-amberieu\" data-base=\"ba-278-amberieu\" data-x=\"active active Service industriel de l&rsquo;a&#233;ronautique \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 278 Amb&#233;rieu-en-Bugey<span>Ain<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFXA<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>01\/19<\/span>2,000 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Entrep&#244;t de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air 601<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-367-cayenne\" data-base=\"ba-367-cayenne\" data-x=\"active active Forces arm&#233;es en Guyane \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 367 Cayenne-Rochambeau<span>Guyane<\/span><\/td>\n<td>SOCA<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>08\/26<\/span>3,205 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de transport 68 Antilles-Guyane<\/span>: <span>Airbus CN235<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-701-salon-de-provence\" data-base=\"ba-701-salon-de-provence\" data-x=\"active active The Directeur g&#233;n&#233;ral de l&rsquo;&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace commands the base \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-701-salon-de-provence\/\">Base a&#233;rienne 701 Salon-de-Provence<\/a><span>Bouches-du-Rh&#244;ne<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFMY<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>16\/34<\/span>2,001 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace<\/span>: <span>Cirrus SR20\/SR22, Grob G 120<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Patrouille acrobatique de France<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>&#201;quipe de voltige de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace<\/span>: <span>Extra EA-330SC<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron d&rsquo;instruction en vol 3\/5 Comtat Venaissin<\/span>: <span>Cirrus SR20\/SR22<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-702-avord\" data-base=\"ba-702-avord\" data-x=\"active active 36e escadre de commandement et de conduite a&#233;roport&#233;s \">\n<td><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-702-avord\/\">Base a&#233;rienne 702 Avord<\/a><span>Cher<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFOA<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>06\/24<\/span>3,503 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de d&#233;tection et de contr&#244;le a&#233;roport&#233;s 00.036 Berry<\/span>: <span>Boeing E-3F Sentry<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>&#201;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de transport 00.319<\/span>: <span>Embraer EMB-121 Xingu<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron d&rsquo;instruction en vol Fourchambault<\/span>: <span>Embraer EMB-121 Xingu<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de soutien technique a&#233;ronautique 15.036 &ldquo;Septaine&rdquo;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-709-cognac\" data-base=\"ba-709-cognac\" data-x=\"active active &#201;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de chasse and 33e escadre de surveillance, de reconnaissance et d&rsquo;attaque \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 709 Cognac-Ch&#226;teaubernard<span>Charente<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFBG<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>05R\/23L<\/span>2,422 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><span><span>08\/26<\/span>1,814 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>&#201;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de chasse 00.315 Christian Martell<\/span>: <span>Pilatus PC-21, Grob G 120A-F<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Escadron de drones 1\/33 Belfort<\/span>: <span>General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>33e escadre de surveillance, de reconnaissance et d&rsquo;attaque<\/span>: <span>General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper, Beechcraft King Air 350ER ALSR<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-721-rochefort\" data-base=\"ba-721-rochefort\" data-x=\"active active &#201;cole de formation des sous-officiers de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 721 Rochefort-Saint-Agnant<span>Charente-Maritime<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFDN<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>12\/30<\/span>2,280 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>&#201;cole de formation des sous-officiers de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-942-lyon-mont-verdun\" data-base=\"ba-942-lyon-mont-verdun\" data-x=\"active active Commandement de la d&#233;fense a&#233;rienne et des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes (CDAOA) \">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun<span>Rh&#244;ne<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Commandement de la d&#233;fense a&#233;rienne et des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Centre national des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-da-181-la-reunion\" data-base=\"da-181-la-reunion\" data-x=\"active active Forces arm&#233;es dans la zone sud de l&rsquo;oc&#233;an Indien \">\n<td>D&#233;tachement air 181 La R&#233;union<span>La R&#233;union<\/span><\/td>\n<td>FMEE<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>12\/30<\/span>3,200 m<\/span><span><span>14\/32<\/span>2,670 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de transport 50 R&#233;union<\/span>: <span>Airbus CN235<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-da-190-tahiti\" data-base=\"da-190-tahiti\" data-x=\"active active Forces arm&#233;es en Polyn&#233;sie fran&#231;aise \">\n<td>D&#233;tachement air 190 Tahiti-Faa&rsquo;a<span>Polyn&#233;sie fran&#231;aise<\/span><\/td>\n<td>NTAA<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>04\/22<\/span>3,420 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Escadron de transport 82 Maine<\/span>: <span>Airbus CN235<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-da-365-martinique\" data-base=\"da-365-martinique\" data-x=\"active active Forces arm&#233;es aux Antilles \">\n<td>D&#233;tachement air 365 Martinique<span>Martinique<\/span><\/td>\n<td>TFFF<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill\">Active<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>10\/28<\/span>3,300 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li><span>D&#233;tachement air 365<\/span>: <span>Airbus CN235 (detached from Cayenne)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-160-dakar\" data-base=\"ba-160-dakar\" data-x=\" closed Formerly &#201;l&#233;ments fran&#231;ais au S&#233;n&#233;gal \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 160 Dakar-Ouakam<span>Senegal<\/span><\/td>\n<td>GOOY<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2025<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>18\/36<\/span>3,490 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>&#201;l&#233;ment air rattach&#233; de Dakar<\/span>: <span>Airbus CN235, Transall C-160<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-172-ndjamena\" data-base=\"ba-172-ndjamena\" data-x=\" closed Formerly Forces fran&#231;aises au Tchad \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 172 N&rsquo;Djamena<span>Chad<\/span><\/td>\n<td>FTTJ<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2025<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>05\/23<\/span>2,800 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Base a&#233;rienne projet&#233;e de N&rsquo;Djamena<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000D<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-mirage-f1\/\">Dassault Mirage F1CR<\/a>, Transall C-160, General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-bap-niamey\" data-base=\"bap-niamey\" data-x=\" closed Formerly Op&#233;ration Barkhane \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne projet&#233;e de Niamey<span>Niger<\/span><\/td>\n<td>DRRN<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2023<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>09\/27<\/span>3,000 m<\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Detachment, escadron de drones 1\/33 Belfort<\/span>: <span>General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper, Dassault Mirage 2000D<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-279-chateaudun\" data-base=\"ba-279-chateaudun\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly aircraft storage and reclamation \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 279 Ch&#226;teaudun<span>Eure-et-Loir<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFOC<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>10\/28<\/span>2,302 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Entrep&#244;t de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air 601<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-705-tours\" data-base=\"ba-705-tours\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly &#201;cole de chasse \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 705 Tours-Saint-Symphorien<span>Indre-et-Loire<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFOT<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2021<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>02\/20<\/span>2,404 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Escadron d&rsquo;instruction en vol 3\/4 Limousin<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-102-dijon-longvic\" data-base=\"ba-102-dijon-longvic\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly 2e escadre de chasse \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 102 Dijon-Longvic<span>C&#244;te-d&rsquo;Or<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFSD<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2016<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>17\/35<\/span>2,400 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Escadron de chasse 1\/2 Cigognes<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iii\/\">Dassault Mirage IIIC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000C<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-901-drachenbronn\" data-base=\"ba-901-drachenbronn\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly Centre de d&#233;tection et de contr&#244;le \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 901 Drachenbronn<span>Bas-Rhin<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2015<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Centre de d&#233;tection et de contr&#244;le<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-103-cambrai-epinoy\" data-base=\"ba-103-cambrai-epinoy\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly 12e escadre de chasse \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 103 Cambrai-&#201;pinoy<span>Nord<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFQI<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2013<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>10\/28<\/span>2,500 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Escadron de chasse 1\/12 Cambr&#233;sis<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000C<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-mirage-f1\/\">Dassault Mirage F1C<\/a>, Dassault Mirage IIIC<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-128-metz-frescaty\" data-base=\"ba-128-metz-frescaty\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly Commandement de la force a&#233;rienne de projection \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 128 Metz-Frescaty<span>Moselle<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFSF<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2012<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>01\/19<\/span>2,400 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Headquarters formations<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-217-bretigny\" data-base=\"ba-217-bretigny\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly Centre d&rsquo;essais en vol \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 217 Br&#233;tigny-sur-Orge<span>Essonne<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFPY<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2012<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>05\/23<\/span>3,000 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Centre d&rsquo;essais en vol<\/span>: <span>Various trials aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-112-reims\" data-base=\"ba-112-reims\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly 30e escadre de chasse and reconnaissance units \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 112 Reims-Champagne<span>Marne<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFSR<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2011<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>07\/25<\/span>2,482 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Escadron de reconnaissance 1\/33 Belfort<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-mirage-f1\/\">Dassault Mirage F1CR<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-921-taverny\" data-base=\"ba-921-taverny\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly the strategic command post of the Forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 921 Taverny<span>Val-d&rsquo;Oise<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2011<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Centre d&rsquo;op&#233;rations des forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-132-colmar-meyenheim\" data-base=\"ba-132-colmar-meyenheim\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly 13e escadre de chasse \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 132 Colmar-Meyenheim<span>Haut-Rhin<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFSC<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2010<\/span><\/td>\n<td><span><span>01\/19<\/span>2,400 m<span>concrete<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>13e escadre de chasse<\/span>: <span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iii\/\">Dassault Mirage 5F<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-mirage-f1\/\">Dassault Mirage F1CT<\/a>, Dassault Mirage IIIE<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr id=\"base-ba-101-toulouse-francazal\" data-base=\"ba-101-toulouse-francazal\" data-x=\"active closed Formerly transport and air transport training \" class=\"was\">\n<td>Base a&#233;rienne 101 Toulouse-Francazal<span>Haute-Garonne<\/span><\/td>\n<td>LFBR<\/td>\n<td><span class=\"pill was\">Closed 2009<\/span><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"was\"><span>Transport units<\/span>: <span>Nord Noratlas, Transall C-160<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p class=\"qnone\" data-none=\"basefind\">No air base matches that search.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"oob\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Order of battle<\/div>\n<h2>Who is stationed where in the French Air and Space Force<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Flying units by base, with the wing each belongs to. <span class=\"imp\">French squadrons carry provincial names &mdash; Gascogne, Normandie-Niemen, Cigognes &mdash; and most of those names are older than the aircraft by fifty years or more.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"qbar\"><input class=\"qin\" type=\"search\" id=\"unitfind\" data-filter=\"#oobwrap\" data-item=\".oob\" data-noun=\"installations\" placeholder=\"Search squadrons, wings, aircraft, bases\" aria-label=\"Search squadrons, wings, aircraft, bases\" autocomplete=\"off\" spellcheck=\"false\"><button class=\"qbtn\" type=\"button\" data-clear=\"unitfind\">Clear<\/button><span class=\"qcnt\" data-count=\"unitfind\"><\/span><button class=\"qbtn\" type=\"button\" data-toggleall=\"#oobwrap\">Expand all<\/button><\/div>\n<div class=\"oobwrap coll\" id=\"oobwrap\">\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Haute-Marne active 4e escadre de chasse\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-113-saint-dizier\/\">Base a&#233;rienne 113 Saint-Dizier-Robinson<\/a> &middot; LFSI<\/span><em>4e escadre de chasse<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 1\/4 Gascogne<small>Gascogne &middot; Nuclear-capable fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale B<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 2\/4 La Fayette<small>La Fayette &middot; Nuclear-capable fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale B<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transformation Rafale 3\/4 Aquitaine<small>Aquitaine &middot; Rafale conversion squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale B\/C<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de soutien technique a&#233;ronautique 15\/004 &ldquo;Haute-Marne&rdquo;<small>Aircraft maintenance squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Escadron de chasse 1\/7 Provence<small>1973&ndash;2016<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Dassault Rafale C<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Landes active 30e escadre de chasse and the Centre d&rsquo;expertise a&#233;rienne militaire (CEAM)\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-118-mont-de-marsan\/\">Base a&#233;rienne 118 Mont-de-Marsan<\/a> &middot; LFBM<\/span><em>30e escadre de chasse and the Centre d&rsquo;expertise a&#233;rienne militaire<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>R&#233;giment de chasse 2\/30 Normandie-Niemen<small>Normandie-Niemen &middot; Fighter regiment &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale C<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 3\/30 Lorraine<small>Lorraine &middot; Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale C<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 1\/30 C&#244;te d&rsquo;Argent<small>C&#244;te d&rsquo;Argent &middot; Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Rafale B\/C<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Centre d&rsquo;expertise a&#233;rienne militaire<small>CEAM &middot; Operational test and evaluation centre &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000D<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Escadron de reconnaissance 2\/33 Savoie<small>2011&ndash;2014<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Dassault Mirage F1CR<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Bouches-du-Rh&#244;ne active 31e escadre a&#233;rienne de ravitaillement et de transport strat&#233;giques\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-125-istres\/\">Base a&#233;rienne 125 Istres-Le Tub&#233;<\/a> &middot; LFMI<\/span><em>31e escadre a&#233;rienne de ravitaillement et de transport strat&#233;giques<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de ravitaillement en vol et de transport strat&#233;giques 1\/31 Bretagne<small>Bretagne &middot; Air refuelling and strategic transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de ravitaillement en vol et de transport strat&#233;giques 2\/31 Est&#233;rel<small>Est&#233;rel &middot; Air refuelling and strategic transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transformation Ph&#233;nix 3\/31 Landes<small>Landes &middot; A330 MRTT conversion squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix<\/dd>\n<dt>&#201;cole du personnel navigant d&rsquo;essais et de r&#233;ception<small>EPNER &middot; Test pilot school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Various trials aircraft<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de d&#233;fense sol-air 01.950 Crau<small>Ground-based air defence squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Escadron de ravitaillement en vol 4\/31 Sologne<small>2019&ndash;2025<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">C-135FR Stratotanker, KC-135RG Stratotanker<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Cher active 36e escadre de commandement et de conduite a&#233;roport&#233;s\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-702-avord\/\">Base a&#233;rienne 702 Avord<\/a> &middot; LFOA<\/span><em>36e escadre de commandement et de conduite a&#233;roport&#233;s<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de d&#233;tection et de contr&#244;le a&#233;roport&#233;s 00.036 Berry<small>Berry &middot; Airborne early warning and control squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Boeing E-3F Sentry<\/dd>\n<dt>&#201;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de transport 00.319<small>EAT 319 &middot; Transport crew school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Embraer EMB-121 Xingu<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron d&rsquo;instruction en vol Fourchambault<small>Fourchambault &middot; Flying instruction squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Embraer EMB-121 Xingu<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de soutien technique a&#233;ronautique 15.036 &ldquo;Septaine&rdquo;<small>Aircraft maintenance squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Bouches-du-Rh&#244;ne active The Directeur g&#233;n&#233;ral de l&rsquo;&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace commands the base\">\n<div><span><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-bases\/ba-701-salon-de-provence\/\">Base a&#233;rienne 701 Salon-de-Provence<\/a> &middot; LFMY<\/span><em>The Directeur g&#233;n&#233;ral de l&rsquo;&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace commands the base<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace<small>Air force academy &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Cirrus SR20\/SR22<\/dd>\n<dt>Patrouille acrobatique de France<small>Patrouille de France &middot; Aerobatic display team &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>&#201;quipe de voltige de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace<small>EVAAE &middot; Competition aerobatic team &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Extra EA-330SC<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron d&rsquo;instruction en vol 3\/5 Comtat Venaissin<small>Comtat Venaissin &middot; Flying instruction squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Cirrus SR20\/SR22<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Eure active 62e escadre de transport\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 105 &#201;vreux-Fauville &middot; LFOE<\/span><em>62e escadre de transport<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 1\/62 Vercors<small>Vercors &middot; Tactical transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus CN235<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 3\/62 Ventoux<small>Ventoux &middot; Tactical transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus CN235<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transport franco-allemand<small>Binational squadron &middot; Franco-German tactical transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Lockheed Martin C-130J-30<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Escadron &#233;lectronique 5\/64 Dunkerque<small>2026&ndash;<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Dassault Falcon 8X Archange<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Escadron de transport 2\/64 Anjou<small>1965&ndash;2022<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Transall C-160<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Gironde active Commandement des forces a&#233;riennes (CFA)\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 106 Bordeaux-M&#233;rignac &middot; LFBD<\/span><em>Commandement des forces a&#233;riennes<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Commandement des forces a&#233;riennes<small>CFA &middot; Force generation and training command &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 43 M&#233;doc<small>M&#233;doc &middot; Liaison and transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Socata TBM 700<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Yvelines active Commandement des forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques (CFAS)\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 107 V&#233;lizy-Villacoublay &middot; LFPV<\/span><em>Commandement des forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Commandement des forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques<small>CFAS &middot; Strategic air forces command &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 60<small>ET 60 &middot; Government transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Dassault Falcon 7X<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 41 Verdun<small>Verdun &middot; Liaison squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Socata TBM 700<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron d&rsquo;h&#233;licopt&#232;res 3\/67 Parisis<small>Parisis &middot; Helicopter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus Helicopters AS332 Super Puma<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Oise active Commandement de la d&#233;fense a&#233;rienne et des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes (CDAOA)\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 110 Creil &middot; LFPC<\/span><em>Commandement de la d&#233;fense a&#233;rienne et des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Centre de formation et d&rsquo;interpr&#233;tation interarm&#233;es de l&rsquo;imagerie<small>CF3I &middot; Imagery intelligence centre &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Escadron de transport 3\/60 Est&#233;rel<small>1965&ndash;2016<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Douglas DC-8, Airbus A310, Airbus A340<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Vaucluse active 5e escadre de chasse\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 115 Orange-Caritat &middot; LFMO<\/span><em>5e escadre de chasse<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 1\/5 Vend&#233;e<small>Vend&#233;e &middot; Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale C<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron d&rsquo;h&#233;licopt&#232;res 5\/67 Alpilles<small>Alpilles &middot; Helicopter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus Helicopters AS555 Fennec<\/dd>\n<dt>Centre d&rsquo;instruction des &#233;quipages d&rsquo;h&#233;licopt&#232;res 341 Colonel Alexis Santini<small>CIEH 341 &middot; Helicopter crew training centre &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus Helicopters AS555 Fennec<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Escadron de chasse 2\/5 &#206;le-de-France<small>1942&ndash;2022<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Dassault Mirage 2000B\/C, Dassault Mirage F1C, Dassault Mirage IIIC, Supermarine Spitfire<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Haute-Sa&#244;ne active 2e escadre de chasse\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 116 Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur &middot; LFSX<\/span><em>2e escadre de chasse<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 1\/2 Cigognes<small>Cigognes &middot; Air defence fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000-5F<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Rafale squadron (RAF7)<small>2033&ndash;<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Dassault Rafale F5<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Rafale squadron (RAF8)<small>2035&ndash;<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Dassault Rafale F5<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Gironde active 8e escadre de chasse\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 120 Cazaux &middot; LFBC<\/span><em>8e escadre de chasse<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de transition op&#233;rationnelle 1\/8 Saintonge<small>Saintonge &middot; Operational conversion squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transition op&#233;rationnelle 2\/8 Nice<small>Nice &middot; Operational conversion squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron d&rsquo;entra&#238;nement 3\/8 C&#244;te d&rsquo;Or<small>C&#244;te d&rsquo;Or &middot; Training and adversary squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\">Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron d&rsquo;h&#233;licopt&#232;res 1\/67 Pyr&#233;n&#233;es<small>Pyr&#233;n&#233;es &middot; Combat search and rescue squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus Helicopters H225M Caracal<\/dd>\n<dt>No. 150 Squadron, Republic of Singapore Air Force<small>Allied training squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Master<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Loiret active 61e escadre de transport\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 123 Orl&#233;ans-Bricy &middot; LFOJ<\/span><em>61e escadre de transport<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 1\/61 Touraine<small>Touraine &middot; Tactical and strategic transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus A400M Atlas<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 4\/61 B&#233;arn<small>B&#233;arn &middot; Transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus A400M Atlas<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 3\/61 Poitou<small>Poitou &middot; Special operations transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus A400M Atlas<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 2\/61 Franche-Comt&#233;<small>Franche-Comt&#233; &middot; Tactical transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Lockheed C-130H \/ C-130H-30 Hercules<\/dd>\n<dt>Centre d&rsquo;instruction des &#233;quipages de transport 00.340<small>CIET 340 &middot; Transport crew training centre &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus A400M Atlas<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Corse-du-Sud active Base a&#233;rienne 126\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 126 Solenzara &middot; LFKS<\/span><em>Base a&#233;rienne 126<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron d&rsquo;h&#233;licopt&#232;res 1\/44 Solenzara<small>Solenzara &middot; Search and rescue squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus Helicopters AS332 Super Puma<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de d&#233;fense sol-air<small>Ground-based air defence squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Meurthe-et-Moselle active 3e escadre de chasse\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 133 Nancy-Ochey &middot; LFSO<\/span><em>3e escadre de chasse<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 1\/3 Navarre<small>Navarre &middot; Strike squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000D RMV<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 2\/3 Champagne<small>Champagne &middot; Strike squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000D RMV<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 3\/3 Ardennes<small>Ardennes &middot; Strike squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000D RMV<\/a><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Charente active &#201;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de chasse and 33e escadre de surveillance, de reconnaissance et d&rsquo;attaque\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 709 Cognac-Ch&#226;teaubernard &middot; LFBG<\/span><em>&#201;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de chasse and 33e escadre de surveillance, de reconnaissance et d&rsquo;attaque<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>&#201;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de chasse 00.315 Christian Martell<small>EAC 315 &middot; Fighter pilot school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Pilatus PC-21<\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de drones 1\/33 Belfort<small>Belfort &middot; Armed drone squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper<\/dd>\n<dt>33e escadre de surveillance, de reconnaissance et d&rsquo;attaque<small>33e ESRA &middot; Surveillance, reconnaissance and attack wing &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Charente-Maritime active &#201;cole de formation des sous-officiers de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 721 Rochefort-Saint-Agnant &middot; LFDN<\/span><em>&#201;cole de formation des sous-officiers de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>&#201;cole de formation des sous-officiers de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace<small>EFSOAA &middot; Non-commissioned officer school &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Rh&#244;ne active Commandement de la d&#233;fense a&#233;rienne et des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes (CDAOA)\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun &middot; <\/span><em>Commandement de la d&#233;fense a&#233;rienne et des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Commandement de la d&#233;fense a&#233;rienne et des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes<small>CDAOA &middot; Air defence and air operations command &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dt>Centre national des op&#233;rations a&#233;riennes<small>CNOA &middot; National air operations centre &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Ain active Service industriel de l&rsquo;a&#233;ronautique\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 278 Amb&#233;rieu-en-Bugey &middot; LFXA<\/span><em>Service industriel de l&rsquo;a&#233;ronautique<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Entrep&#244;t de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air 601<small>EAA 601 &middot; Aeronautical stores depot &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Guyane active Forces arm&#233;es en Guyane\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 367 Cayenne-Rochambeau &middot; SOCA<\/span><em>Forces arm&#233;es en Guyane<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 68 Antilles-Guyane<small>Antilles-Guyane &middot; Overseas transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus CN235<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"La R&#233;union active Forces arm&#233;es dans la zone sud de l&rsquo;oc&#233;an Indien\">\n<div><span>D&#233;tachement air 181 La R&#233;union &middot; FMEE<\/span><em>Forces arm&#233;es dans la zone sud de l&rsquo;oc&#233;an Indien<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 50 R&#233;union<small>R&#233;union &middot; Overseas transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus CN235<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Nouvelle-Cal&#233;donie active Forces arm&#233;es de la Nouvelle-Cal&#233;donie\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 186 Noum&#233;a-La Tontouta &middot; NWWW<\/span><em>Forces arm&#233;es de la Nouvelle-Cal&#233;donie<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 52 Tontouta<small>Tontouta &middot; Overseas transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus CN235<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Polyn&#233;sie fran&#231;aise active Forces arm&#233;es en Polyn&#233;sie fran&#231;aise\">\n<div><span>D&#233;tachement air 190 Tahiti-Faa&rsquo;a &middot; NTAA<\/span><em>Forces arm&#233;es en Polyn&#233;sie fran&#231;aise<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 82 Maine<small>Maine &middot; Overseas transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus CN235<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Martinique active Forces arm&#233;es aux Antilles\">\n<div><span>D&#233;tachement air 365 Martinique &middot; TFFF<\/span><em>Forces arm&#233;es aux Antilles<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>D&#233;tachement air 365<small>Overseas air detachment &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus CN235 (detached from Cayenne)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"Djibouti  Forces fran&#231;aises stationn&#233;es &#224; Djibouti\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 188 Djibouti &middot; HDAM<\/span><em>Forces fran&#231;aises stationn&#233;es &#224; Djibouti<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 3\/11 Corse<small>Corse &middot; Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\">Dassault Mirage 2000-5F<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt>Escadron de transport 88 Larzac<small>Larzac &middot; Transport squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus CN235<\/dd>\n<dt>D&#233;tachement h&#233;licopt&#232;res<small>Helicopter detachment &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd>Airbus Helicopters SA330 Puma<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"oob\" data-x=\"United Arab Emirates  Forces fran&#231;aises aux &#201;mirats arabes unis\">\n<div><span>Base a&#233;rienne 104 Al Dhafra &middot; OMAM<\/span><em>Forces fran&#231;aises aux &#201;mirats arabes unis<\/em><i><\/i><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dt>Escadron de chasse 1\/7 Provence<small>Provence &middot; Fighter squadron &middot; active<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\">Dassault Rafale C<\/a><\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Escadron de chasse 3\/30 Lorraine<small>2010&ndash;2016<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Dassault Rafale C<\/dd>\n<dt class=\"was\">Escadron de chasse 1\/2 Cigognes<small>2008&ndash;2010<\/small><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"was\">Dassault Mirage 2000-5F<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"qnone\" data-none=\"unitfind\">No unit matches that search.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"timeline\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Timeline<\/div>\n<h2>French Air and Space Force milestones, 1914 to today<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1909<\/div>\n<p>September: France buys its first military aeroplane. A law of 29 March 1912 organises military aeronautics as a branch of the army, and the escadrilles of 1914&ndash;18 give the service its vocabulary, its stork badges and its aces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1928<\/div>\n<p>A Ministry of Air is created. A decree of 1 April 1933 grants the air arm independence in principle, but without a staff or a budget of its own.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1934<\/div>\n<p>2 July: the law that makes the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air a service in its own right, thirteen years before the United States Air Force and a year before the Luftwaffe is announced.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1940<\/div>\n<p>10 May to 25 June: the air force is caught mid-rearmament. MS.406s and Curtiss H-75 Hawks fight the Bf 109E, the Dewoitine D.520 arrives too late and in too small numbers, and the campaign is lost in six weeks. The service splits between Vichy and the Free French.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1942<\/div>\n<p>November: after the Allied landings in North Africa the French air force returns to the war. The Normandie-Niemen group fights on the Eastern Front under Soviet command and Groupe de chasse Alsace flies with the RAF; French roundels are back over Germany by 1945.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1954<\/div>\n<p>7 May: Dien Bien Phu falls. Eight years of air operations over Indochina with borrowed American aircraft end in a defeat that air power could supply but not prevent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1956<\/div>\n<p>October to November: Myst&#232;re IVAs and F-84Fs fly the Suez operation from Akrotiri in Cyprus and, in Israeli markings, from Ramat David and Lod. Noratlas transports drop paratroops on Port Said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1962<\/div>\n<p>Algeria ends after eight years in which the air force learned helicopter assault, close air support and improvised gunships &mdash; and lost the loyalty of some of its own generals in the putsch of April 1961.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1964<\/div>\n<p>1 October: the first Mirage IVA squadron becomes operational and France joins the nuclear club with a supersonic bomber of its own design, refuelled by twelve American C-135Fs. The Forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques are born.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1986<\/div>\n<p>Op&#233;ration &#201;pervier begins in Chad and runs for twenty-eight years. Jaguars, Mirage F1s and Transalls from N&rsquo;Djamena become the permanent French air presence in Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1991<\/div>\n<p>January to February: Op&#233;ration Daguet. Jaguars and Mirage 2000s fly the French share of the Gulf War from Saudi Arabia, the first time French aircraft fight in a large coalition air campaign.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1995<\/div>\n<p>30 August: a Mirage 2000N of escadron de chasse 2\/3 Champagne is shot down over Pale on the first night of Deliberate Force. Its crew, Fr&#233;d&#233;ric Chiffot and Jos&#233; Souvignet, are held for 104 days and freed on 18 December.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1996<\/div>\n<p>31 July: the Mirage IV gives up the nuclear strike role to the Mirage 2000N, and France scraps the land-based missiles on the Plateau d&rsquo;Albion. The deterrent becomes two components: submarines and aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2011<\/div>\n<p>19 March: Rafales from Saint-Dizier fire the first shots of the Libyan intervention, ahead of every other contributor. France flies about a quarter of all NATO sorties in Op&#233;ration Harmattan.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2013<\/div>\n<p>11 to 13 January: Op&#233;ration Serval. Mirage 2000Ds from N&rsquo;Djamena strike a column advancing on Bamako, and Rafales fly direct from Saint-Dizier to Gao in a nine-hour mission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2020<\/div>\n<p>11 September: the service becomes the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace, taking on the military space mission. The Commandement de l&rsquo;espace had been created in Toulouse a year earlier.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2022<\/div>\n<p>15 August: the last French aircraft leave Mali. Burkina Faso follows in February 2023, Niger at the end of 2023, Chad on 30 January 2025 and Senegal in July 2025; Djibouti is left as the only permanent French fighter base in Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2025<\/div>\n<p>March: President Macron announces that Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur will be rebuilt for two nuclear-armed Rafale F5 squadrons and the ASN4G missile, at a cost of at least 1.5 billion euros. Six Mirage 2000-5F are transferred to Ukraine from 6 February.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">2026<\/div>\n<p>June: the fiftieth and last Mirage 2000D RMV is handed over at Nancy-Ochey, and two French Rafale on Baltic Air Policing shoot down a drone over Latvian territory &mdash; the first air-to-air kill by a French fighter in Europe since 1945.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"combat\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Combat record<\/div>\n<h2>Every campaign the French Air and Space Force has fought, 1939 to today<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Fifteen campaigns since 1939 &mdash; Indochina, Suez, Algeria, Chad, the Gulf, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Libya, the Sahel and the Levant &mdash; flown almost entirely with French-built aircraft.<\/p>\n<div class=\"statstrip dark\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>15<\/b><span>conflicts<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1939<\/b><span>First<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>4<\/b><span>Aircraft lost<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>3<\/b><span>Killed<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul class=\"gl cml\">\n<li><b>NATO eastern flank air policing<\/b> <span class=\"de\">2022-present<\/span> Armed air policing and deterrence on NATO&rsquo;s eastern border after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with Rafale and Mirage 2000 detachments rotating through Romanian and Baltic bases<\/li>\n<li><b>Op&#233;ration Chammal<\/b> <span class=\"de\">2014-present<\/span> French contribution to the international coalition against Islamic State: strike, armed reconnaissance and training of Iraqi forces, flown from Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and at times from the aircraft carrier<\/li>\n<li><b>Op&#233;ration Hamilton<\/b> <span class=\"de\">2018<\/span> A single co-ordinated night strike with the United States and the United Kingdom against Syrian chemical weapons research and storage sites after the Douma attack<\/li>\n<li><b>Op&#233;ration Barkhane<\/b> <span class=\"de\">2014-2022<\/span> Regional counter-terrorism across five Sahel states, with fighters, drones and transports operating from N&rsquo;Djamena, Niamey and Gao<\/li>\n<li><b>Op&#233;ration Serval<\/b> <span class=\"de\">2013-2014<\/span> Emergency intervention to stop an armed column advancing on Bamako, followed by an offensive to retake northern Mali<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"cbig\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/air-forces\/french-air-and-space-force\/combat-record\/\">Open the full combat record<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"teams\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Display teams<\/div>\n<h2>The French Air and Space Force display teams<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Each team has its own page: history, aircraft, the display, the accidents and the sources.<\/p>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/display-teams\/patrouille-de-france\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Formation aerobatic team &middot; Active<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Patrouille de France<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The French Air and Space Force&rsquo;s national aerobatic team: eight Alpha Jets from Salon-de-Provence trailing tricolour smoke, named in 1953 and on the Alpha Jet&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the Patrouille de France page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/display-teams\/equipe-de-voltige-de-larmee-de-lair\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Solo display &middot; Active<\/span><span class=\"rh\">French Air and Space Force Aerobatic Team<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Three Extra 330 aerobatic aircraft at Salon-de-Provence, flown by a handful of military pilots who both display at air shows and compete for world titles.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the French Air and Space Force Aerobatic Team page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/display-teams\/rafale-solo-display\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Solo display &middot; Active<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Rafale Solo Display<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A single Rafale C from the Saint-Dizier conversion squadron, flown by an instructor for two seasons and repainted each year, showing the French Air and Space&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the Rafale Solo Display page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/display-teams\/couteau-delta\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Formation aerobatic team &middot; Active<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Couteau Delta<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Two Mirage 2000D crews from the 3rd Fighter Wing at Nancy-Ochey flying a tactical demonstration of low-level attack, the last French display on any Mirage.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the Couteau Delta page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/display-teams\/cartouche-dore\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Formation aerobatic team &middot; 1989&ndash;2016<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Cartouche Dor&#233;<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Three piston-engined TB 30 Epsilon trainers flown by Cognac flying instructors, the &ldquo;little sister&rdquo; of the Patrouille de France that could fly from grass&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the Cartouche Dor&#233; page<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/display-teams\/ramex-delta\/\"><span class=\"rk\">Formation aerobatic team<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Ramex Delta<\/span><span class=\"rp\">A pair of nuclear-strike Mirage 2000Ns from escadron de chasse 2\/4 La Fayette that flew low, tight tactical displays until the type retired.<\/span><span class=\"go\">Read the Ramex Delta page<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"makers\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The manufacturers<\/div>\n<h2>Who built the French Air and Space Force fleet<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Every company behind the aircraft on this page has its own page: the story, every type it built, the numbers and the other air forces that fly them.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div>\n<h3>Current fleet and orders<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/dassault\/\">Dassault Aviation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/airbus\/\">Airbus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/airbus-helicopters\/\">Airbus Helicopters<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/beechcraft\/\">Beechcraft<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/boeing\/\">Boeing<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/dornier\/\">Dornier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/embraer\/\">Embraer<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/extra\/\">Extra Flugzeugbau<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/general-atomics\/\">General Atomics<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/grob\/\">Grob Aircraft<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/lockheed\/\">Lockheed<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/lockheed-martin\/\">Lockheed Martin<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/pilatus\/\">Pilatus<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/socata\/\">SOCATA<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/saab\/\">Saab<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/de-havilland-canada\/\">de Havilland Canada<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Former fleet<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/north-american-aviation\/\" class=\"was\">North American Aviation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/amiot\/\" class=\"was\">Amiot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/breguet\/\" class=\"was\">Breguet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/curtiss\/\" class=\"was\">Curtiss<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/dewoitine\/\" class=\"was\">Dewoitine<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/douglas\/\" class=\"was\">Douglas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/english-electric\/\" class=\"was\">English Electric<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/fouga\/\" class=\"was\">Fouga<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/morane-saulnier\/\" class=\"was\">Morane-Saulnier<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/nieuport\/\" class=\"was\">Nieuport<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/nord-aviation\/\" class=\"was\">Nord Aviation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/potez\/\" class=\"was\">Potez<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/republic\/\" class=\"was\">Republic Aviation<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/sepecat\/\" class=\"was\">SEPECAT<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/sncase\/\" class=\"was\">SNCASE (Sud-Est)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/sncaso\/\" class=\"was\">SNCASO (Sud-Ouest)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/spad\/\" class=\"was\">SPAD<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft-manufacturers\/transall\/\" class=\"was\">Transall<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"news\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">From the magazine<\/div>\n<h2>French Air and Space Force news from Afterburner<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Everything MiGFlug&rsquo;s magazine has published on the French Air and Space Force and the aircraft it flies. <span class=\"imp\">This list refreshes itself &mdash; new Afterburner stories appear here automatically.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"ngrid\" id=\"newsgrid\" data-cats=\"664,670,666\" data-term=\"france\" data-match=\"fran[c]e|french|armee de l|arm&eacute;e de l|rafale|mirage 2000|mirage iv|mirage f1|alpha ?jet|a400m|phenix|ph&eacute;nix|mrtt|patrouille de france|neuron|fcas|scaf|saint-dizier|mont-de-marsan|istres|salon-de-provence|avord|luxeuil|orange-caritat|nancy-ochey|cazaux|solenzara|creil|villacoublay|dassault|safran|snecma|sepecat|\\bjaguar\\b|super ?etendard|breguet|dewoitine|morane|potez|caudron|nord aviation|sud aviation|aerospatiale|caracal|h225m|asmp|force de dissuasion|armee de l air|dga\" data-reject=\"Air France|French Bee|Transavia|Corsair International|ASL Airlines|Aigle Azur|XL Airways|La Compagnie|Air Caraibes|French Blue|Jaguar Land Rover|Jaguar E-Type|Atlas Air|Atlas Cheetah\"><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/rafale-f5-dga-first-contracts-fcas-collapse-2026\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph64\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-14\">14 September 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">Rafale F5: France Orders the First Contracts After FCAS Died<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">With the Franco-German fighter programme gone, the DGA has funded the four riskiest pieces of the Rafale F5: radar, jammer, datalink and engine&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/pegase-26-french-air-force-rafale-global-deployment-2026\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph65\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-06\">6 September 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">PEGASE 26: France Sends Four Rafales 40,000 km Around the World<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">Four Rafales, three A330 MRTT Ph&eacute;nix and two A400Ms left France on 8 September for a 40-day, 40,000-kilometre arc from Greenland to Egypt&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/france-sweden-next-generation-fighter-cooperation-2026\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph66\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-09-01\">1 September 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">France Eyes a Fighter Built With Sweden<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">During Macron&rsquo;s visit to Sweden, France signalled it is open to building the next European fighter with Saab, after FCAS collapsed in June&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/french-arms-exports-2025-rafale-record-2026\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph67\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-08-20\">20 August 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">France&rsquo;s Arms Ledger Stays at Altitude: &euro;21 Billion, and the Rafale Still Leads<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">France booked &euro;21.24 billion in new arms-export orders in 2025, a shade below 2024 and the second consecutive year above &euro;20 billion&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/french-rafale-intercept-fsb-tu-214-baltic-2026\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph68\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-08-19\">19 August 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">France Caught a Rare Russian Spy Jet<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">Over the Baltic this summer a French Rafale slid into formation beside a Tupolev Tu-214PU, a rare command jet linked to Russia&rsquo;s FSB&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><a class=\"ncard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/france-germany-nuclear-exercise-rafale-eurofighter-norvenich-2026\/\"><span class=\"ncim ph69\"><\/span><span class=\"ncbody\"><time datetime=\"2026-07-20\">20 July 2026<\/time><span class=\"nct\">Germany Joins a French Nuclear Exercise<\/span><span class=\"ncx\">Two French Rafales and two Luftwaffe Eurofighters flew together on 16 July. The next day Macron and Merz announced German forces will join&hellip;<\/span><span class=\"ncgo\">Read the story<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"nmore\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/afterburner\/\">All stories in Afterburner<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"faq\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Questions &amp; Answers<\/div>\n<h2>Everything people ask about the French Air and Space Force<\/h2>\n<div class=\"qa\">\n<details open>\n<summary>How many Rafales does France have?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace has roughly 110 Rafale B and C in 2026, on top of the navy&rsquo;s Rafale M. The last officially published count was 105 in the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la d&#233;fense 2025; Dassault delivered eleven more to French forces in 2025, split between the air force and the navy, and one more is programmed for 2026. Counting is genuinely hard: France sold 12 second-hand air force Rafales to Greece and 12 to Croatia, has repeatedly given up delivery slots to export customers, and lost two aircraft in a mid-air collision on 14 August 2024. Forty-two more were ordered in January 2024 for delivery from 2027.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Does France still have nuclear bombers?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Not bombers, but nuclear-armed fighters, which is the same thing in French doctrine. Two Rafale B squadrons at Saint-Dizier &mdash; the Gascogne and the La Fayette &mdash; carry the ASMPA-R stand-off nuclear missile for the Forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques, supported by A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix tankers from Istres. The dedicated nuclear bomber, the Mirage IV, gave up the role on 31 July 1996. Two more nuclear Rafale squadrons are to stand up at Luxeuil in the 2030s with the Rafale F5 and the hypersonic ASN4G missile.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What replaced the Mirage 2000?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Rafale, but slowly and only partly. The Mirage 2000N nuclear striker was replaced by the Rafale B in 2018 and the Mirage 2000C interceptor retired in June 2022 with the Rafale taking over air defence. But the Mirage 2000D ground attack aircraft is being kept: fifty of them were put through the RMV mid-life upgrade between 2015 and 2026 and will fly into the 2030s. The Mirage 2000-5F air defence fighter survives with one squadron at Luxeuil and a detachment at Djibouti, and is due out before 2029.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Is the French Air Force any good?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">By the measures that matter to a medium-sized air force, yes. It is the only European air force that delivers its own country&rsquo;s nuclear weapons, the only one whose fighter is designed, built, engined and radar-equipped domestically, and it has fought more expeditionary air campaigns since 1960 than any European air force except the British. Its weakness is depth: about 180 combat aircraft is a small number for the tasks it accepts, and in July 2025 the air staff told parliament it is flying the Rafale fleet roughly 15 per cent beyond the hours it was sized for.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many aircraft does the French Air and Space Force have?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Around 500 of all kinds: about 180 combat aircraft, 25 A400M, 12 A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix, about 20 Hercules and 27 CN-235 transports, four E-3F Sentries, ten MQ-9 Reapers, roughly 115 trainers and about 76 helicopters. France does not publish a single audited inventory the way the United States does, so totals vary by a few dozen depending on what is counted.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many people are in the French Air and Space Force?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">About 38,000 military personnel and roughly 5,000 civilians, making it around 19 per cent of French military strength. The 2024&ndash;2030 planning law sets a target of 40,000 aviators by 2030; recruitment grew 2.5 per cent in 2024, 6.4 per cent in 2025 and is forecast to grow 4.7 per cent in 2026.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Who commands the French Air and Space Force?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">G&#233;n&#233;ral d&rsquo;arm&#233;e a&#233;rienne J&#233;r&#244;me Bellanger, chief of staff of the air and space force (CEMAAE) since September 2024. He is a Mirage 2000 RDI pilot with 2,400 flying hours and 59 combat missions, and previously commanded Saint-Dizier air base, the air academy at Salon-de-Provence and the Forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Why is it called the Air and Space Force?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Because on 11 September 2020 the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air formally took on the military space mission and renamed itself the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace. The Commandement de l&rsquo;espace, based in Toulouse, had been created in September 2019. France did not create a separate space service the way the United States did; it gave the job to the air force.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Does France have its own air force bases in Africa?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">One: Base a&#233;rienne 188 at Djibouti, where escadron de chasse 3\/11 Corse has been stationed since 1978 and flies three Mirage 2000-5F and, since August 2025, two Mirage 2000D RMV. Everything else has gone. France left Mali in August 2022, Burkina Faso in February 2023, Niger at the end of 2023, Chad on 30 January 2025 and Senegal in July 2025; the Ivory Coast base at Port-Bou&#235;t was handed over on 20 February 2025.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the Patrouille de France?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The French air force aerobatic display team, based at Salon-de-Provence since 1964 and one of the oldest national teams in the world. It flies eight Alpha Jets, has done since 1981, and opens the Bastille Day flypast over the Champs-&#201;lys&#233;es every 14 July with blue, white and red smoke.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the ASMPA-R?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The air-launched nuclear missile carried by the French air force&rsquo;s Rafale B. It is a ramjet-powered stand-off weapon with a single warhead, an upgrade of the ASMP-A that entered service in 2023, and it is being replaced around 2035 by the hypersonic ASN4G, which will fly on the Rafale F5.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Did France really fire the first shots in Libya in 2011?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Yes. On 19 March 2011, hours before the first American and British cruise missiles, French Rafales that had flown from Saint-Dizier struck vehicles of Gaddafi&rsquo;s forces outside Benghazi. France went on to fly about 25 per cent of NATO sorties, 35 per cent of offensive missions and roughly 20 per cent of strikes in the campaign.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many air bases does France have?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Fifteen air bases with runways in metropolitan France, plus about four non-flying bases and detachments and several attached air elements; six overseas in La R&#233;union, Guyane, Martinique, Nouvelle-Cal&#233;donie and Polyn&#233;sie fran&#231;aise and Djibouti; and one abroad, BA 104 Al Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates. Eleven metropolitan bases were closed between 2009 and 2021.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the SCAF or FCAS?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Syst&#232;me de combat a&#233;rien du futur, the Franco-German-Spanish programme meant to replace the Rafale from about 2040 with a new fighter, drones and a combat cloud. It is stuck. Germany&rsquo;s deadline of mid-April 2026 for a decision on the next phase passed without one, and Dassault and Airbus remain at odds over work share, intellectual property and whether the aircraft must be carrier-capable and nuclear-capable. France is hedging with the Rafale F5 and a national combat drone.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the Rafale F5?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The next major standard of the Rafale, due from the early 2030s. It will carry the ASN4G hypersonic nuclear missile from about 2035, fly with a new stealth combat drone descended from the nEUROn demonstrator, and be the aircraft of the two new nuclear squadrons at Luxeuil. Twenty aircraft of the 2024 order have been deferred to 2033&ndash;34 so they can be built as F5s from the start.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Does France operate armed drones?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Yes, ten MQ-9 Reapers, all flown by the escadron de drones 1\/33 Belfort at Cognac. France bought them urgently for Mali in 2013, armed them in December 2019 &mdash; the first French armed drone strike &mdash; and upgraded the fleet to the Block 5 Extended Range standard on 19 December 2024. The European Eurodrone that was meant to replace them is roughly five years late.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What happened to the Mirage 2000s France sent to Ukraine?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">France announced in June 2024 that it would transfer Mirage 2000-5F fighters to Ukraine and delivered the first on 6 February 2025. Six aircraft were prepared, modified for air-to-ground work and handed over, drawn from a fleet that numbered about 28. France has not published an updated figure for what remains, which is why the French holding is best given as roughly 22.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Where are France&rsquo;s AWACS based?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">At Avord, in the Cher, with the escadron de d&#233;tection et de contr&#244;le a&#233;roport&#233;s 00.036 Berry. France owns four Boeing E-3F Sentries, bought in 1990 and progressively upgraded &mdash; the only airborne early warning aircraft owned outright by a continental Western European air force. A successor is planned for the early 2030s.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air&rsquo;s motto?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\"><em>Faire face<\/em> &mdash; roughly &quot;face up to it&quot;. It comes from Georges Guynemer and the Escadrille des Cigognes of the First World War, and it is still worn by escadron de chasse 1\/2 Cigognes at Luxeuil and carved into the memorial at the air academy at Salon-de-Provence.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Does France build its own fighter aircraft?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Completely. The Rafale airframe is Dassault, the M88 engine is Safran, the RBE2 active electronically scanned array radar and most of the avionics are Thales, the SPECTRA self-protection suite is Thales and MBDA, and the weapons &mdash; MICA, Meteor, SCALP, AASM and the nuclear ASMPA-R &mdash; are French or Franco-British. No other European country does the whole of that alone.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What is the Forces a&#233;riennes strat&#233;giques?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Strategic Air Forces Command, created in 1964 with the Mirage IV, which runs the airborne component of the French nuclear deterrent. Today it commands two Rafale B squadrons at Saint-Dizier, the tanker squadrons at Istres and the associated support, and is headquartered at V&#233;lizy-Villacoublay. It turned sixty on 8 October 2024.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many A400M does France have?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Twenty-five, the twenty-fifth delivered in January 2026, with two more due in 2026. France has ordered 50 in total; the planning law sets 35 by 2030 and the air force has indicated it wants more so it can retire the C-130H sooner. They are flown from Orl&#233;ans-Bricy by the squadrons Touraine, Poitou and B&#233;arn.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Has France ever lost an aircraft in combat since 1945?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Many, mostly in Indochina and Algeria, and a small number since. The best-known recent loss was a Mirage 2000N shot down by a shoulder-launched missile over Pale in Bosnia on 30 August 1995; both crew survived and were held for 104 days. France lost no manned aircraft to enemy fire in the Gulf War, Kosovo, Libya, Mali or the Levant. One MQ-9 Reaper was lost over Niger in November 2018.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What happened to the Transall?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">The Franco-German C-160 Transall left French service in 2022 after more than fifty-four years, taking with it the two C-160G Gabriel signals intelligence aircraft. Its transport work went to the A400M; the signals intelligence capability has not yet been replaced, and the Falcon 8X Archange bought to fill the gap first flew on 26 July 2025.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Do French Rafales shoot at anything?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Regularly. They fly strike missions over Iraq and Syria under Op&#233;ration Chammal &mdash; 21 operational sorties and nearly 76 flying hours in one week of June 2026 alone &mdash; and they hold NATO air policing alert. On 8 June 2026 two French Rafales on Baltic Air Policing destroyed a drone that had crossed into Latvian airspace from the east, over an uninhabited area.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Where can I fly a fighter jet in France?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">Not from any of these bases. French military airfields do not sell flights to the public, and the Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace does not run passenger sorties. The nearest thing is civil-operated jet flying in ex-military types elsewhere in Europe and in the United States &mdash; MiGFlug flies the L-39 Albatros in Florida, in a real second seat with time on the controls.<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p><script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\", \"@type\": \"FAQPage\", \"mainEntity\": [{\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How many Rafales does France have?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The Arm\\u00e9e de l\\u2019air et de l\\u2019espace has roughly 110 Rafale B and C in 2026, on top of the navy\\u2019s Rafale M. The last officially published count was 105 in the Chiffres cl\\u00e9s de la d\\u00e9fense 2025; Dassault delivered eleven more to French forces in 2025, split between the air force and the navy, and one more is programmed for 2026. Counting is genuinely hard: France sold 12 second-hand air force Rafales to Greece and 12 to Croatia, has repeatedly given up delivery slots to export customers, and lost two aircraft in a mid-air collision on 14 August 2024. Forty-two more were ordered in January 2024 for delivery from 2027.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Does France still have nuclear bombers?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Not bombers, but nuclear-armed fighters, which is the same thing in French doctrine. Two Rafale B squadrons at Saint-Dizier \\u2014 the Gascogne and the La Fayette \\u2014 carry the ASMPA-R stand-off nuclear missile for the Forces a\\u00e9riennes strat\\u00e9giques, supported by A330 MRTT Ph\\u00e9nix tankers from Istres. The dedicated nuclear bomber, the Mirage IV, gave up the role on 31 July 1996. Two more nuclear Rafale squadrons are to stand up at Luxeuil in the 2030s with the Rafale F5 and the hypersonic ASN4G missile.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What replaced the Mirage 2000?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The Rafale, but slowly and only partly. The Mirage 2000N nuclear striker was replaced by the Rafale B in 2018 and the Mirage 2000C interceptor retired in June 2022 with the Rafale taking over air defence. But the Mirage 2000D ground attack aircraft is being kept: fifty of them were put through the RMV mid-life upgrade between 2015 and 2026 and will fly into the 2030s. The Mirage 2000-5F air defence fighter survives with one squadron at Luxeuil and a detachment at Djibouti, and is due out before 2029.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Is the French Air Force any good?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"By the measures that matter to a medium-sized air force, yes. It is the only European air force that delivers its own country\\u2019s nuclear weapons, the only one whose fighter is designed, built, engined and radar-equipped domestically, and it has fought more expeditionary air campaigns since 1960 than any European air force except the British. Its weakness is depth: about 180 combat aircraft is a small number for the tasks it accepts, and in July 2025 the air staff told parliament it is flying the Rafale fleet roughly 15 per cent beyond the hours it was sized for.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How many aircraft does the French Air and Space Force have?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Around 500 of all kinds: about 180 combat aircraft, 25 A400M, 12 A330 MRTT Ph\\u00e9nix, about 20 Hercules and 27 CN-235 transports, four E-3F Sentries, ten MQ-9 Reapers, roughly 115 trainers and about 76 helicopters. France does not publish a single audited inventory the way the United States does, so totals vary by a few dozen depending on what is counted.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How many people are in the French Air and Space Force?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"About 38,000 military personnel and roughly 5,000 civilians, making it around 19 per cent of French military strength. The 2024\\u20132030 planning law sets a target of 40,000 aviators by 2030; recruitment grew 2.5 per cent in 2024, 6.4 per cent in 2025 and is forecast to grow 4.7 per cent in 2026.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Who commands the French Air and Space Force?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"G\\u00e9n\\u00e9ral d\\u2019arm\\u00e9e a\\u00e9rienne J\\u00e9r\\u00f4me Bellanger, chief of staff of the air and space force (CEMAAE) since September 2024. He is a Mirage 2000 RDI pilot with 2,400 flying hours and 59 combat missions, and previously commanded Saint-Dizier air base, the air academy at Salon-de-Provence and the Forces a\\u00e9riennes strat\\u00e9giques.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Why is it called the Air and Space Force?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Because on 11 September 2020 the Arm\\u00e9e de l\\u2019air formally took on the military space mission and renamed itself the Arm\\u00e9e de l\\u2019air et de l\\u2019espace. The Commandement de l\\u2019espace, based in Toulouse, had been created in September 2019. France did not create a separate space service the way the United States did; it gave the job to the air force.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Does France have its own air force bases in Africa?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"One: Base a\\u00e9rienne 188 at Djibouti, where escadron de chasse 3\/11 Corse has been stationed since 1978 and flies three Mirage 2000-5F and, since August 2025, two Mirage 2000D RMV. Everything else has gone. France left Mali in August 2022, Burkina Faso in February 2023, Niger at the end of 2023, Chad on 30 January 2025 and Senegal in July 2025; the Ivory Coast base at Port-Bou\\u00ebt was handed over on 20 February 2025.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the Patrouille de France?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The French air force aerobatic display team, based at Salon-de-Provence since 1964 and one of the oldest national teams in the world. It flies eight Alpha Jets, has done since 1981, and opens the Bastille Day flypast over the Champs-\\u00c9lys\\u00e9es every 14 July with blue, white and red smoke.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the ASMPA-R?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The air-launched nuclear missile carried by the French air force\\u2019s Rafale B. It is a ramjet-powered stand-off weapon with a single warhead, an upgrade of the ASMP-A that entered service in 2023, and it is being replaced around 2035 by the hypersonic ASN4G, which will fly on the Rafale F5.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Did France really fire the first shots in Libya in 2011?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Yes. On 19 March 2011, hours before the first American and British cruise missiles, French Rafales that had flown from Saint-Dizier struck vehicles of Gaddafi\\u2019s forces outside Benghazi. France went on to fly about 25 per cent of NATO sorties, 35 per cent of offensive missions and roughly 20 per cent of strikes in the campaign.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How many air bases does France have?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Fifteen air bases with runways in metropolitan France, plus about four non-flying bases and detachments and several attached air elements; six overseas in La R\\u00e9union, Guyane, Martinique, Nouvelle-Cal\\u00e9donie and Polyn\\u00e9sie fran\\u00e7aise and Djibouti; and one abroad, BA 104 Al Dhafra in the United Arab Emirates. Eleven metropolitan bases were closed between 2009 and 2021.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the SCAF or FCAS?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The Syst\\u00e8me de combat a\\u00e9rien du futur, the Franco-German-Spanish programme meant to replace the Rafale from about 2040 with a new fighter, drones and a combat cloud. It is stuck. Germany\\u2019s deadline of mid-April 2026 for a decision on the next phase passed without one, and Dassault and Airbus remain at odds over work share, intellectual property and whether the aircraft must be carrier-capable and nuclear-capable. France is hedging with the Rafale F5 and a national combat drone.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the Rafale F5?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The next major standard of the Rafale, due from the early 2030s. It will carry the ASN4G hypersonic nuclear missile from about 2035, fly with a new stealth combat drone descended from the nEUROn demonstrator, and be the aircraft of the two new nuclear squadrons at Luxeuil. Twenty aircraft of the 2024 order have been deferred to 2033\\u201334 so they can be built as F5s from the start.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Does France operate armed drones?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Yes, ten MQ-9 Reapers, all flown by the escadron de drones 1\/33 Belfort at Cognac. France bought them urgently for Mali in 2013, armed them in December 2019 \\u2014 the first French armed drone strike \\u2014 and upgraded the fleet to the Block 5 Extended Range standard on 19 December 2024. The European Eurodrone that was meant to replace them is roughly five years late.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What happened to the Mirage 2000s France sent to Ukraine?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"France announced in June 2024 that it would transfer Mirage 2000-5F fighters to Ukraine and delivered the first on 6 February 2025. Six aircraft were prepared, modified for air-to-ground work and handed over, drawn from a fleet that numbered about 28. France has not published an updated figure for what remains, which is why the French holding is best given as roughly 22.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Where are France\\u2019s AWACS based?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"At Avord, in the Cher, with the escadron de d\\u00e9tection et de contr\\u00f4le a\\u00e9roport\\u00e9s 00.036 Berry. France owns four Boeing E-3F Sentries, bought in 1990 and progressively upgraded \\u2014 the only airborne early warning aircraft owned outright by a continental Western European air force. A successor is planned for the early 2030s.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the Arm\\u00e9e de l\\u2019air\\u2019s motto?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Faire face \\u2014 roughly \\\"face up to it\\\". It comes from Georges Guynemer and the Escadrille des Cigognes of the First World War, and it is still worn by escadron de chasse 1\/2 Cigognes at Luxeuil and carved into the memorial at the air academy at Salon-de-Provence.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Does France build its own fighter aircraft?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Completely. The Rafale airframe is Dassault, the M88 engine is Safran, the RBE2 active electronically scanned array radar and most of the avionics are Thales, the SPECTRA self-protection suite is Thales and MBDA, and the weapons \\u2014 MICA, Meteor, SCALP, AASM and the nuclear ASMPA-R \\u2014 are French or Franco-British. No other European country does the whole of that alone.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What is the Forces a\\u00e9riennes strat\\u00e9giques?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The Strategic Air Forces Command, created in 1964 with the Mirage IV, which runs the airborne component of the French nuclear deterrent. Today it commands two Rafale B squadrons at Saint-Dizier, the tanker squadrons at Istres and the associated support, and is headquartered at V\\u00e9lizy-Villacoublay. It turned sixty on 8 October 2024.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"How many A400M does France have?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Twenty-five, the twenty-fifth delivered in January 2026, with two more due in 2026. France has ordered 50 in total; the planning law sets 35 by 2030 and the air force has indicated it wants more so it can retire the C-130H sooner. They are flown from Orl\\u00e9ans-Bricy by the squadrons Touraine, Poitou and B\\u00e9arn.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Has France ever lost an aircraft in combat since 1945?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Many, mostly in Indochina and Algeria, and a small number since. The best-known recent loss was a Mirage 2000N shot down by a shoulder-launched missile over Pale in Bosnia on 30 August 1995; both crew survived and were held for 104 days. France lost no manned aircraft to enemy fire in the Gulf War, Kosovo, Libya, Mali or the Levant. One MQ-9 Reaper was lost over Niger in November 2018.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"What happened to the Transall?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"The Franco-German C-160 Transall left French service in 2022 after more than fifty-four years, taking with it the two C-160G Gabriel signals intelligence aircraft. Its transport work went to the A400M; the signals intelligence capability has not yet been replaced, and the Falcon 8X Archange bought to fill the gap first flew on 26 July 2025.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Do French Rafales shoot at anything?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Regularly. They fly strike missions over Iraq and Syria under Op\\u00e9ration Chammal \\u2014 21 operational sorties and nearly 76 flying hours in one week of June 2026 alone \\u2014 and they hold NATO air policing alert. On 8 June 2026 two French Rafales on Baltic Air Policing destroyed a drone that had crossed into Latvian airspace from the east, over an uninhabited area.\"}}, {\"@type\": \"Question\", \"name\": \"Where can I fly a fighter jet in France?\", \"acceptedAnswer\": {\"@type\": \"Answer\", \"text\": \"Not from any of these bases. French military airfields do not sell flights to the public, and the Arm\\u00e9e de l\\u2019air et de l\\u2019espace does not run passenger sorties. The nearest thing is civil-operated jet flying in ex-military types elsewhere in Europe and in the United States \\u2014 MiGFlug flies the L-39 Albatros in Florida, in a real second seat with time on the controls.\"}}]}<\/script><hr class=\"divider\">\n<section id=\"gallery\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Continue the tour<\/div>\n<h2>Read the aircraft the French Air and Space Force flew<\/h2>\n<p class=\"spx-lede\">Every type with a page in the Book of Beasts, in service first, then by the year it left the fleet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"acgrid\"><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/rafale\/\"><span class=\"im ph2\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault Rafale B\/C<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>In service<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\"><span class=\"im ph3\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault Mirage 2000D \/ 2000D RMV<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>In service<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\"><span class=\"im ph4\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault Mirage 2000-5F<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>In service<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/alpha-jet\/\"><span class=\"im ph16\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault\/Dornier Alpha Jet E<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>In service<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\"><span class=\"im ph36\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault Mirage 2000C \/ 2000B RDI<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1984&ndash;2022<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-2000\/\"><span class=\"im ph38\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault Mirage 2000N<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1988&ndash;2018<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-mirage-f1\/\"><span class=\"im ph39\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault Mirage F1 C\/CT\/CR<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1973&ndash;2014<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iv\/\"><span class=\"im ph40\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault Mirage IV A\/P<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1964&ndash;2005<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/sepecat-jaguar\/\"><span class=\"im ph41\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>SEPECAT Jaguar A\/E<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1973&ndash;2005<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/fouga-magister\/\"><span class=\"im ph42\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Fouga CM.170 Magister<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1956&ndash;1996<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mirage-iii\/\"><span class=\"im ph43\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault Mirage III C\/E\/B\/R<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1961&ndash;1994<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/mystere-iv\/\"><span class=\"im ph46\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault Myst&#232;re IVA<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1955&ndash;1982<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/super-mystere\/\"><span class=\"im ph49\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault Super Myst&#232;re B2<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1957&ndash;1977<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/t-33-shooting-star\/\"><span class=\"im ph50\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star \/ Silver Star<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/b><em>1951&ndash;1976<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/english-electric-canberra\/\"><span class=\"im ph51\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>English Electric Canberra B.6<span class=\"nflag nf5\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United Kingdom\"><\/span><\/b><em>1954&ndash;1972<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/dassault-ouragan\/\"><span class=\"im ph54\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Dassault MD.450 Ouragan<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1952&ndash;1961<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/de-havilland-vampire\/\"><span class=\"im ph55\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>SNCASE Mistral (de Havilland Vampire)<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1949&ndash;1961<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/p-51-mustang\/\"><span class=\"im ph56\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>North American P-51D Mustang<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/b><em>1945&ndash;1954<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/amiot-143\/\"><span class=\"im none\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Amiot 143<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1935&ndash;1944<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/morane-saulnier-ms-406\/\"><span class=\"im ph58\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Morane-Saulnier MS.406<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1938&ndash;1940<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/curtiss-p-36-hawk\/\"><span class=\"im ph59\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Curtiss H-75 Hawk<span class=\"nflag nf8\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in the United States\"><\/span><\/b><em>1939&ndash;1940<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/breguet-19\/\"><span class=\"im ph60\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Breguet 19<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1924&ndash;1940<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/potez-25\/\"><span class=\"im ph61\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>Potez 25<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1925&ndash;1940<\/em><\/span><\/a><a class=\"acard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/spad-xiii\/\"><span class=\"im ph62\"><\/span><span class=\"tx\"><b>SPAD S.XIII<span class=\"nflag nf4\" role=\"img\" aria-label=\"Built in France\"><\/span><\/b><em>1917&ndash;1923<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<hr class=\"divider\">\n<section style=\"padding:48px 0 64px\">\n<div class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/div>\n<h2>Every fact, checked<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"srclist\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/sites\/default\/files\/ministere-armees\/Chiffres_Cle%CC%81s_2025_FR%20(10%202025).pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Chiffres cl&#233;s de la d&#233;fense 2025<\/a><span>fleet table by type, personnel strength in full-time equivalents<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/mieux-nous-connaitre\/lhistoire-larmee-lair-lespace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: L&rsquo;histoire de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace<\/a><span>founding dates, the law of 2 July 1934, the 11 September 2020 renaming, 1940 and the nuclear component<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/biographie-du-chef-detat-major-larmee-lair-lespace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Biographie du chef d&rsquo;&#233;tat-major de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace<\/a><span>General J&#233;r&#244;me Bellanger, appointment date and career<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/actualites\/commande-42-rafale-larmee-lair-lespace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Commande de 42 Rafale pour l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace<\/a><span>tranche 5 order of 12 January 2024, F4 standard, cost and industrial footprint<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/nos-aeronefs\/nos-avions\/airbus-a400m-atlas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Airbus A400M Atlas<\/a><span>A400M fleet targets and the Sudan evacuation of April 2023<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/nos-aeronefs\/nos-drones\/mq-9-reaper\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: MQ-9 Reaper<\/a><span>Block 5 ER standard from 19 December 2024, basing at Cognac, first GBU-12 drops in France<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/nos-aeronefs\/nos-helicopteres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Nos h&#233;licopt&#232;res<\/a><span>40 AS555 Fennec, Caracal in service since 2006, Puma since 2 May 1974<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/dga\/actualites\/dga-livre-deux-helicopteres-caracal-larmee-lair-lespace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es \/ DGA: La DGA livre deux h&#233;licopt&#232;res Caracal &#224; l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace<\/a><span>13 Caracal with the air force at December 2024, six of the 2021 order still to come<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/istres-base-rend-dernier-hommage-aux-c-135-fr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Istres, la base rend un dernier hommage aux C-135 FR<\/a><span>C-135FR retirement on 15 December 2023, twelve bought in 1964, twelve Ph&#233;nix plus three conversions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/sga\/actualites\/lescadron-franco-allemand-prend-ses-quartiers-a-evreux\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: L&rsquo;escadron franco-allemand prend ses quartiers &#224; &#201;vreux<\/a><span>the binational C-130J squadron: ten aircraft and about 260 people at full strength<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/baltic-air-policing-26-police-du-ciel-flanc-est-leurope\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Baltic Air Policing 26, police du ciel sur le flanc est de l&rsquo;Europe<\/a><span>four Rafale to &#352;iauliai from 28 March 2026 for four months, France as lead nation for the first time<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/operations\/points-situation-operations\/point-situation-operations-du-jeudi-04-juin-au-jeudi-11-juin-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Point de situation des op&#233;rations, 4 au 11 juin 2026<\/a><span>the 8 June 2026 drone shoot-down over Latvia, Ramstein Flag 26 contribution, Chammal weekly sortie figures<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/operations\/actualites\/mission-conjointe-entre-rafale-francais-base-aerienne-projetee-au-levant-pilotes-chasse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Mission conjointe entre les Rafale fran&#231;ais de la base a&#233;rienne projet&#233;e au Levant et les pilotes de chasse irakiens<\/a><span>current shape of Op&#233;ration Chammal<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.senat.fr\/rap\/a25-141-8\/a25-141-8_mono.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">S&#233;nat: Projet de loi de finances pour 2026 &mdash; D&#233;fense: &#233;quipement des forces<\/a><span>2026 deliveries programmed: one Rafale, two A400M, one MRTT<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theatrum-belli.com\/plf-2026-preparation-et-emploi-des-forces-air\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Theatrum Belli: PLF 2026 &mdash; Pr&#233;paration et emploi des forces (Air)<\/a><span>programme 178 air budget for 2026, the 40,000 aviators target and recruitment growth<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2025\/07\/09\/pour-tenir-ses-contrats-operationnels-larmee-de-lair-de-lespace-surutilise-ses-rafale-a-hauteur-de-15\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Pour tenir ses contrats op&#233;rationnels, l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air &amp; de l&rsquo;Espace surutilise ses Rafale &#224; hauteur de 15 %<\/a><span>196 combat aircraft at 31 December 2023, 109 Rafale after 2024 deliveries, LPM targets of 187 by 2030 and 225 by 2035<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2026\/07\/02\/le-cinquantieme-et-dernier-mirage-2000d-porte-au-standard-rmv-a-ete-livre-a-larmee-de-lair-de-lespace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Le cinquanti&#232;me et dernier Mirage 2000D port&#233; au standard RMV a &#233;t&#233; livr&#233;<\/a><span>the 50th Mirage 2000D RMV delivered 16 June 2026 to the 3e escadre, upgrade content, programme dates<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2024\/06\/16\/deux-escadrons-de-rafale-a-vocation-nucleaire-seront-implantes-a-luxeuil-a-partir-de-2032\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Deux escadrons de Rafale &#224; vocation nucl&#233;aire seront implant&#233;s &#224; Luxeuil &#224; partir de 2032<\/a><span>the June 2024 announcement of two nuclear Rafale squadrons for Luxeuil<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2026\/07\/27\/dissuasion-le-ministere-des-armees-a-notifie-les-premiers-marches-pour-la-transformation-de-la-base-aerienne-de-luxeuil\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Dissuasion &mdash; le minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es a notifi&#233; les premiers march&#233;s pour la transformation de la base a&#233;rienne de Luxeuil<\/a><span>construction from 2027 to 2035, at least &#8364;1.5 bn, RAF7 and RAF8, Mirage 2000-5F out before 2029<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2025\/08\/19\/larmee-de-lair-de-lespace-affecte-deux-mirage-2000d-rmv-aux-forces-francaises-stationnees-a-djibouti\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): L&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air &amp; de l&rsquo;Espace affecte deux Mirage 2000D RMV aux Forces fran&#231;aises stationn&#233;es &#224; Djibouti<\/a><span>EC 3\/11 Corse composition in 2025, six Mirage 2000-5F of 28 transferred to Ukraine<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2011\/11\/04\/loperation-harmattan-en-chiffres\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): L&rsquo;op&#233;ration Harmattan en chiffres<\/a><span>5,600 sorties, 27,000 hours, munitions expended, shares of NATO effort, cost<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2026\/06\/02\/un-premier-avion-de-guerre-electronique-archange-aux-couleurs-de-lescadron-5-64-dunkerque-a-ete-repere-a-merignac\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Un premier avion de guerre &#233;lectronique Archange aux couleurs de l&rsquo;escadron 5\/64 Dunkerque<\/a><span>Archange programme status and squadron identity in 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2026\/01\/28\/la-30e-escadre-de-chasse-a-recu-lordre-de-disperser-une-partie-de-ses-rafale-sans-preavis\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): La 30e escadre de chasse a re&#231;u l&rsquo;ordre de disperser une partie de ses Rafale sans pr&#233;avis<\/a><span>January 2026 dispersal exercise at Mont-de-Marsan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meta-defense.fr\/2026\/07\/27\/rafale-livraisons-reportees-standard-f5\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta-Defense: En repoussant la livraison de 20 Rafale &#224; 2033, la France s&#233;curise sa dissuasion &#224; horizon 2035<\/a><span>20 of the 42 tranche 5 aircraft deferred to 2033&ndash;34 in F5 standard, ASN4G timing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meta-defense.fr\/2026\/06\/18\/eurodrone-france-maintient-engagement\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta-Defense: Eurodrone, la France confirme son engagement mais peut retarder sa commande<\/a><span>first flight 2028, service entry 2031, General Bellanger&rsquo;s five-year delay remark, French hedging<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/meta-defense.fr\/2026\/05\/29\/airbus-scaf-decision-manquee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Meta-Defense: SCAF, les &#233;ch&#233;ances d&#233;filent mais le programme subsiste et n&rsquo;avance toujours pas<\/a><span>the missed April 2026 German decision and the Dassault-Airbus dispute<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dassault-aviation.com\/en\/group\/press\/press-kits\/unmanned-combat-aerial-vehicle-program-kicks-off-as-part-of-the-rafale-f5-standard\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dassault Aviation: Unmanned combat aerial vehicle programme kicks off as part of the Rafale F5 standard<\/a><span>programme launched 8 October 2024 at Saint-Dizier, nEUROn heritage, full capability targeted 2033<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.journal-aviation.com\/actualites-defense-espace\/industrie-de-defense\/dassault-aviation-augmente-ses-livraisons-de-rafale-et-de-falcon-20260108.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Journal de l&rsquo;Aviation: Dassault Aviation augmente ses livraisons de Rafale et de Falcon<\/a><span>26 Rafale delivered in 2025, 15 export and 11 for France; order book of 220<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.escadrilles.org\/2026\/05\/expansion-prevue-de-la-flotte-da400m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Escadrilles: Expansion pr&#233;vue de la flotte d&rsquo;A400M<\/a><span>25 A400M flying in 2026, two more due, squadrons operating the type<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerobuzz.fr\/breves-defense\/la-france-commande-9-pilatus-pc-21-supplementaires\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aerobuzz: La France commande 9 Pilatus PC-21 suppl&#233;mentaires<\/a><span>second PC-21 order bringing the total to 26<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2022\/06\/26\/france-retires-legacy-mirage-2000c\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Aviationist: France retires &quot;legacy&quot; Mirage 2000C RDI fighter jets<\/a><span>last Mirage 2000C sortie 23 June 2022 with EC 2\/5 at Orange, 38 years and 235,000 hours<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationist.com\/2025\/03\/20\/france-expand-nuclear-deterrent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Aviationist: France to expand nuclear deterrent amidst Europe&rsquo;s uncertain future<\/a><span>the March 2025 announcement on Luxeuil and the nuclear posture<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/fr\/info-en-continu\/20250531-rafale-et-arme-atomique-lifting-%C3%A0-1-5-milliard-pour-la-base-de-luxeuil\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France 24: Rafale et arme atomique, lifting &#224; 1,5 milliard pour la base de Luxeuil<\/a><span>the &#8364;1.5 billion figure for the Luxeuil rebuild<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/raids-aviation.fr\/2024\/09\/27\/le-vendee-cinquieme-escadron-rafale-a-pris-ses-quartiers-a-orange\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Raids Aviation: Le Vend&#233;e, cinqui&#232;me escadron Rafale, a pris ses quartiers &#224; Orange<\/a><span>EC 1\/5 Vend&#233;e stood up at Orange in September 2024<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Service de l&rsquo;information a&#233;ronautique (SIA France): AIP France and military VAC charts<\/a><span>published ICAO codes, runway designators, lengths, surfaces and aerodrome elevations for French military aerodromes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gifas.fr\/press-summary\/livraison-du-25eme-a400m-de-l-armee-de-l-air-et-de-l-espace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GIFAS press summary: Livraison du 25e A400M de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace<\/a><span>delivery of the 25th French A400M<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insee.fr\/fr\/statistiques\/8269377\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Insee Analyses Grand Est no. 185: La base a&#233;rienne 113 de Saint-Dizier exerce une influence &#233;conomique locale sur pr&#232;s de 3 800 personnes<\/a><span>2,024 people employed on the base in 2023 (1,932 military, 92 civilian), 192 reservists, the 110-commune catchment and the one-in-twenty figure; published 15 October 2024<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/sga\/actualites\/base-aerienne-113-saint-dizier-poids-economique-local-primordial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Base a&#233;rienne 113 de Saint-Dizier, un poids &#233;conomique local primordial<\/a><span>the ministry&rsquo;s own presentation of the INSEE figures, November 2024<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/bea-e\/rapports-denquete\/rapports-denquete-securite-2019\/rapport-denquete-securite-2019-03-i\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BEA-&#201;: Rapport d&rsquo;enqu&#234;te de s&#233;curit&#233; A-2019-03-I &mdash; &#233;jection d&rsquo;un passager d&rsquo;un Rafale biplace<\/a><span>the official investigation into the accidental ejection at Base a&#233;rienne 113 on 20 March 2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2020\/04\/07\/apres-lejection-dun-passager-civil-un-rafale-aurait-pu-etre-perdu-sans-la-chance-et-le-sang-froid-de-son-pilote\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Apr&#232;s l&rsquo;&#233;jection d&rsquo;un passager civil, un Rafale aurait pu &#234;tre perdu sans la chance et le sang-froid de son pilote<\/a><span>the detail of the BEA-&#201; findings: the +3g medical limit never passed on, the 47-degree climb, the sequencer defect and the pilot&rsquo;s recovery<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerosteles.net\/stelefr-neuvic-rafale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A&#233;rost&#232;les: st&#232;le du capitaine Emmanuel Moriuser, Neuvic<\/a><span>the memorial inscription giving the pilot&rsquo;s name and dates, the aircraft (Rafale B no. 316) and the squadron, for the crash of 6 December 2007<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/omnirole-rafale.com\/accidents-et-retraits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Omnirole Rafale: les accidents et retraits<\/a><span>the Rafale accident register used to cross-check the 2007 and 2024 losses and the 2019 ejection<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/actualites\/deces-lequipage-dun-rafale-larmee-lair-lespace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: D&#233;c&#232;s de l&rsquo;&#233;quipage d&rsquo;un Rafale de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace<\/a><span>the official statement on the mid-air collision of 14 August 2024, naming Capitaine S&#233;bastien Mabire and Lieutenant Matthis Laurens<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/poker-simulation-dun-raid-aerien-nucleaire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: POKER, simulation d&rsquo;un raid a&#233;rien nucl&#233;aire<\/a><span>the Poker of 16&ndash;17 March 2026: about forty aircraft, Rafale B of the 4e escadre, A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix, E-3F, and the phases of the raid<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/lescadron-chasse-fayette-fete-110-ans-dengagement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: L&rsquo;escadron de chasse La Fayette f&#234;te 110 ans d&rsquo;engagement<\/a><span>the ceremony at Saint-Dizier on 14 April 2026 and the order of the day read by G&#233;n&#233;ral de corps a&#233;rien St&#233;phane Virem<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2026\/09\/12\/larmee-de-lair-de-lespace-envisage-dutiliser-des-ballons-captifs-pour-proteger-ses-bases-contre-les-drones\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): L&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace envisage d&rsquo;utiliser des ballons captifs pour prot&#233;ger ses bases contre les drones<\/a><span>the five-day tethered balloon trial at Base a&#233;rienne 113 in September 2026, its dimensions, altitude and sensors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2014\/05\/22\/ledsa-5950-barrois-realise-son-premier-tir-operationnel-avec-le-systeme-mamba\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): L&rsquo;EDSA 5\/950 Barrois a r&#233;alis&#233; son premier tir op&#233;rationnel avec le syst&#232;me Mamba<\/a><span>the Saint-Dizier ground-based air defence squadron, the SAMP\/T Mamba and its first operational firing at Biscarrosse on 20 May 2014<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/jhm.fr\/ba-113-cinq-questions-pratiques-portes-ouvertes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Journal de la Haute-Marne: BA 113, cinq questions pratiques sur les portes ouvertes des 12 et 13 septembre<\/a><span>the open days of 12&ndash;13 September 2026, about thirty flying displays and some 72,200 visitors expected<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antoinedesaintexupery.org\/lieux\/orconte\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fondation Antoine de Saint-Exup&#233;ry: Orconte<\/a><span>Saint-Exup&#233;ry&rsquo;s arrival at Orconte on 3 December 1939 with groupe de reconnaissance 2\/33 and the move to Athies-sous-Laon in April 1940<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerosteles.net\/stelefr-stdizier-stex\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A&#233;rost&#232;les: st&#232;le Commandant Antoine de Saint-Exup&#233;ry, Saint-Dizier<\/a><span>the memorial on the base dedicated to the base&rsquo;s patron, unveiled on 29 March 1957<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.landes.gouv.fr\/Services-de-l-Etat\/Defense\/Delegation-militaire-departementale\/La-base-aerienne-118\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pr&#233;fecture des Landes: La base a&#233;rienne 118<\/a><span>official figures: about 3,500 people, 66 units, 700 ha and a 15 km perimeter, 600+ buildings, 45 Rafale, Captieux 10,000 ha with a 45 km perimeter<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.landes.gouv.fr\/Services-de-l-Etat\/Defense\/Delegation-militaire-departementale\/La-base-aerienne-118\/Historique-et-missions\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pr&#233;fecture des Landes: La base a&#233;rienne 118 &mdash; historique et missions<\/a><span>the first operational nuclear alert on 8 October 1964, Rozanoff installing the CEAM on 1 November 1945, two aircraft at immediate readiness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.landes.gouv.fr\/Services-de-l-Etat\/Defense\/Delegation-militaire-departementale\/Centre-d-expertise-aerienne-militaire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pr&#233;fecture des Landes: Centre d&rsquo;expertise a&#233;rienne militaire<\/a><span>about 700 experts in 25 units, the 1933 decree under Pierre Cot, why the CEAM sits in the Landes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/ceam-90-ans-dexpertise-dexperimentation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: CEAM, 90 ans d&rsquo;expertise et d&rsquo;exp&#233;rimentation<\/a><span>creation by ministerial decree on 1 April 1933, 39 units on 13 sites, over 2,500 capabilities pronounced in a decade, General Chusseau quote<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/dga\/dga-essais-vol\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es \/ DGA: DGA Essais en vol<\/a><span>about 900 people on two main sites, qualification work as distinct from operational evaluation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/chemins-memoire\/histoire-memoires\/ressources-historiques\/seconde-guerre-mondiale\/operations-militaires\/1941-1943-8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es, Chemins de m&#233;moire: Normandie-Ni&#233;men, des chasseurs fran&#231;ais sur le front de l&rsquo;Est<\/a><span>formation 1 September 1942 at Rayak, 273 homologated victories and 37 probables, 46 pilots dead or missing, the forty Yak-3s from Elbing to Le Bourget<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/normandie-niemen.fr\/273-victoires-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Normandie-Ni&#233;men (association): 273 victoires?<\/a><span>Bundesarchiv cross-check of the homologated claims and why the official total cannot be revised<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.portail-aviation.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/armee-de-lair-le-normandie-niemen\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Portail des Passionn&#233;s d&rsquo;Aviation: Arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air, le Normandie-Niemen r&#233;activ&#233; sur Rafale<\/a><span>the reactivation ceremony at Mont-de-Marsan on 25 June 2012 with about ten Rafale F3<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traditions-air.fr\/texte\/escadre30.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traditions Air: 30e escadre de chasse<\/a><span>created 1 May 1953 at Tours, Reims from March 1961, dissolved 27 June 1994, re-created 3 September 2015<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traditions-air.fr\/texte\/escadre91.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traditions Air: 91e escadre de bombardement<\/a><span>formed 1964 at Mont-de-Marsan, EB 1\/91 Gascogne and ERV 4\/91 Landes, dissolved 1 August 1993, ERS 1\/91 to 31 August 2005<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traditions-air.fr\/communique_presse_AA_09.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traditions Air: communiqu&#233;s de presse de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air, 2014<\/a><span>the Mirage F1 retirement ceremony at Mont-de-Marsan on 13 June 2014 with ER 2\/33 Savoie after forty years<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pilote-chasse-11ec.com\/le-jaguar-au-ceam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">11e escadre de chasse (association): Le Jaguar au CEAM<\/a><span>first Jaguar at Mont-de-Marsan 4 May 1972, 500 sorties by May 1973, the procedures written by the CEAM team<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2019\/07\/19\/larmee-de-lair-a-officialise-ladoption-du-standard-f3r-du-rafale\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): L&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air a officialis&#233; l&rsquo;adoption du standard F3R du Rafale<\/a><span>adoption on 16 July 2019, the difference from DGA qualification, CEAM and CEPA\/10S joint trials, Meteor and Talios<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2024\/02\/24\/le-rafale-porte-au-standard-f4-1-a-desormais-acquis-sa-pleine-capacite-operationnelle\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Le Rafale port&#233; au standard F4.1 a d&#233;sormais acquis sa pleine capacit&#233; op&#233;rationnelle<\/a><span>full operational capability announced 23 February 2024, first F4.1 air-policing alert from BA 118, ECE 1\/30 evaluation from March 2023<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/dga\/actualites\/dga-conduit-succes-essais-dintegration-roquettes-guidees-laser-rafale-lutte-anti-drone\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es \/ DGA: Essais d&rsquo;int&#233;gration des roquettes guid&#233;es laser sur Rafale pour la lutte anti-drone<\/a><span>contract 31 December 2025, trials at Istres, Cazaux, Balma and Biscarrosse, CEAM experimental firings, capability on 7 July 2026<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.natotigers.org\/tiger-meet\/ntm2019\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NATO Tiger Association: NATO Tiger Meet 2019<\/a><span>13&ndash;24 May 2019 at BA 118, hosted by EC 3\/30 Lorraine, 16 flying squadrons from 11 nations, trophy results<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.escadrilles.org\/reportages\/volfa-2025-a-mont-de-marsan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Escadrilles: VOLFA 2025 &#224; Mont-de-Marsan<\/a><span>October 2025 exercise, about 50 aircraft and twenty fighter sorties a day, Greek F-16s and Italian Tornados, anti-drone training<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/orion-2026-deploiement-dune-campagne-aerienne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Orion 2026, d&#233;ploiement d&rsquo;une campagne a&#233;rienne<\/a><span>February 2026 kinetic phase: ten air bases, 50 combat aircraft, six ground-based air defence systems, 1,500 aviators<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/base-aerienne-mont-marsan-organise-son-premier-exercice-saphir\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: La base a&#233;rienne de Mont-de-Marsan organise son premier exercice Saphir<\/a><span>12&ndash;16 February 2024, target of 20 Rafale available at once and 180 to 200 sorties in the week<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lepetitjournal.net\/40-landes\/2026\/08\/31\/les-quatres-rafale-f4-de-mont-de-marsan-au-coeur-du-deploiement-mondial\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Petit Journal (Landes): Les quatre Rafale F4 de Mont-de-Marsan au coeur du d&#233;ploiement mondial<\/a><span>P&#233;gase 26: four Rafale F4 of the 30e escadre, 38 days, about 300 aviators, three A330 MRTT and two A400M<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lepetitjournal.net\/40-landes\/2025\/08\/30\/passation-de-commandement-a-la-ba-118\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Le Petit Journal (Landes): Passation de commandement &#224; la BA 118<\/a><span>Colonel Matthieu Cereghetti takes command on 28 August 2025, with changes at EC 3\/30, ESTA 15.030 and EDSA 12 Tursan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theaviationgeekclub.com\/operation-tamoure-the-only-time-a-french-air-force-mirage-iv-strategic-bomber-dropped-a-live-nuclear-bomb\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Aviation Geek Club: Operation Tamour&#233;, the only time a French Mirage IV dropped a live nuclear bomb<\/a><span>19 July 1966, EB 1\/91 Gascogne, AN-21 of about 60 kilotons, staging via Otis AFB and Hao<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aerosteles.net\/stelefr-mdm-mir458\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A&#233;rost&#232;les: Mur du souvenir, Mirage IV n&#176; 58 CE, Mont-de-Marsan, 7 octobre 1977<\/a><span>the crash onto the caserne Jean Maridor and the two crew named on the memorial<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2010\/05\/11\/crash-dun-mirage-2000-dans-les-landes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Crash d&rsquo;un Mirage 2000 dans les Landes<\/a><span>11 May 2010, EC 5\/330 C&#244;te d&rsquo;Argent, crash near Pouydesseaux, pilot ejected<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/falkeeins.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/atlantic-reconnaissance-1-fliegerfuhrer.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FalkeEins, the Luftwaffe blog: Atlantic reconnaissance, Fliegerf&#252;hrer Atlantik and the Junkers Ju 290<\/a><span>FAGr 5 at Mont-de-Marsan from November 1943, 191 missions, about twenty convoys located, nine Ju 290 and 91 men lost<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dassault-aviation.com\/en\/passion\/news\/70-years-since-the-death-of-constantin-rozanoff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dassault Aviation: 70 years since the death of Constantin Rozanoff<\/a><span>head of Dassault flight test from 1946, the Myst&#232;re IV B01 first flight of 28 September 1952 and the level-flight supersonic claim<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dircam.dsae.defense.gouv.fr\/images\/Stories\/Doc\/MIAC4\/miac4_istresletube_lfmi.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DIRCAM \/ DSAE: carte d&rsquo;a&#233;rodrome militaire ISTRES LE TUBE (LFMI)<\/a><span>the authoritative figures: ALT AD 82 ft, ARP 43&#176;31&rsquo;21&quot;N 004&#176;55&rsquo;27&quot;E, RWY 15\/33 QFU 151\/331, 3,750 m x 53 m paved, SWY 1,208 m x 59 m off RWY 33 and 114 m off RWY 15, THR elevations 77 ft and 62 ft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/dga\/actualites\/centre-dexpertise-dessais-dga-essais-vol-celebre-ses-80-ans\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es \/ DGA: Le centre d&rsquo;expertise et d&rsquo;essais DGA Essais en vol c&#233;l&#232;bre ses 80 ans<\/a><span>the ceremony at Istres on 4 July 2024 presided by Emmanuel Chiva, close to 900 staff on two sites, more than 4,000 test flights and 6,500 flight hours in 2023 and about eighty aircraft accepted<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/terminal-passagers-du-hub-armees-inaugure-istres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Le terminal passagers du hub des arm&#233;es inaugur&#233; &#224; Istres<\/a><span>inaugurated on 16 May 2024 by G&#233;n&#233;ral St&#233;phane Mille; 100,000 passengers and 9,000 tonnes of freight a year, 540 passengers processed at once, about one hectare of infrastructure<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/thomas-pesquet-nouveau-reserviste-operationnel-larmee-lair-lespace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Thomas Pesquet, nouveau r&#233;serviste op&#233;rationnel de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air et de l&rsquo;Espace<\/a><span>the contract signed on 8 August 2024 as colonel de r&#233;serve op&#233;rationnelle with the 31e escadre at Istres on the A330 Ph&#233;nix MRTT, after citizen-reserve service since 2017<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/istres-activite-exceptionnelle-missions-simultanees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Istres, une activit&#233; exceptionnelle et des missions simultan&#233;es<\/a><span>the March 2022 surge after the invasion of Ukraine: 300 aircraft movements, 500 personnel and 1,700 tonnes of freight moved to Romania, twenty Antonov rotations, and Colonel David Marty on the base&rsquo;s three permanent missions continuing throughout<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/pegase-26-nouvelle-projection-puissance-aerospatiale\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: PEGASE 26, nouvelle projection de la puissance a&#233;rospatiale<\/a><span>8 September to 15 October 2026, four Rafale, three A330 MRTT Ph&#233;nix, two A400M Atlas, about 300 personnel, more than 40,000 km through Greenland, Canada, Alaska, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Qatar, R&#233;union and Egypt, commanded by G&#233;n&#233;ral de division a&#233;rienne Julien Sab&#233;n&#233;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/nos-aeronefs\/nos-avions\/airbus-a330-phenix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Airbus A330 Ph&#233;nix<\/a><span>110 tonnes of fuel in the wing, up to 272 passengers, the Morph&#233;e and CM30 medical kits, 233 tonnes maximum take-off weight, refuelling two fighters at once or one E-3F, and fifteen aircraft by 2028<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/armement.defense.gouv.fr\/la-dga-receptionne-et-livre-le-12e-mrtt-dernier-de-la-premiere-serie\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es \/ DGA: La DGA r&#233;ceptionne et livre le 12e MRTT, dernier de la premi&#232;re s&#233;rie<\/a><span>delivery of the twelfth Ph&#233;nix on 20 September 2023 completing the first order, and the target of fifteen aircraft<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/maritima.fr\/actualites\/defense\/istres\/15175\/ba-125-distres-une-base-hors-norme-le-general-yann-malard-prend-les-commandes-sous-les-yeux-de-thomas-pesquet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maritima: BA 125 d&rsquo;Istres, &ldquo;une base hors norme&rdquo;, le G&#233;n&#233;ral Yann Malard prend les commandes sous les yeux de Thomas Pesquet<\/a><span>the change of command of 27 August 2026 from Colonel S&#233;bastien Est&#232;ve to G&#233;n&#233;ral de brigade a&#233;rienne Yann Malard, the outgoing commander&rsquo;s remarks on the base as a &ldquo;hub de l&rsquo;&#201;tat&rdquo;, and Thomas Pesquet&rsquo;s attendance as a reserve pilot of the base<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/maritima.fr\/actualites\/defense\/istres\/15319\/mission-pegase-2026-le-tour-du-monde-des-rafale-et-des-phenix-va-decoller-de-la-ba-125-distres\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maritima: Mission P&#233;gase 2026, le tour du monde des Rafale et des Ph&#233;nix va d&#233;coller de la BA 125 d&rsquo;Istres<\/a><span>why Istres is the departure base: the runway, the Ph&#233;nix fleet and the Hub des arm&#233;es; the departure on 8 September 2026 and the composition of the deployment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/laclepublique.fr\/bouches-du-rhone\/articles\/2026\/2026-09-08-pegase-26-depart-istres\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">La Cl&#233; Publique: P&#233;gase 26, d&rsquo;Istres &#224; l&rsquo;Alaska gr&#226;ce au ravitaillement<\/a><span>the departure from Istres on 8 September 2026 and the detail that the Rafale reached Alaska in about eleven hours without landing, on six air-to-air refuellings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2025\/10\/12\/le-general-bellanger-laisse-entendre-que-le-nombre-davions-ravitailleurs-a330-mrtt-est-insuffisant\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Le g&#233;n&#233;ral Bellanger laisse entendre que le nombre d&rsquo;avions ravitailleurs A330 MRTT est insuffisant<\/a><span>the chief of the air staff in October 2025 on the fleet being watched closely because the aircraft&rsquo;s versatility creates competing operational demands, and on the tankers remaining under strategic air forces command<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.concordereference.fr\/le-pneu-michelin-nzg\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">APCOS (concordereference.fr): Le pneu Michelin NZG, et Concorde aux essais en vol<\/a><span>the Istres test campaigns of 18 January to 3 February 2001 on the Kevlar tank protection and of April&ndash;May 2001 on the tyre, the decisive trial of 2 May 2001 with F-BTSD, and the NZG&rsquo;s 3 per cent expansion against 12 per cent for the bias-ply tyre<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/aviateurs.e-monsite.com\/pages\/1946-et-annees-suivantes\/perte-du-c-135-473.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Claude Brunet, Histoires d&rsquo;aviateurs: Perte du C-135F 473 et de son &#233;quipage<\/a><span>the loss of C-135F no. 473 of ERV 4\/91 Landes off Hao on 30 June 1972 with six killed, the named crew, and the finding of internal engine corrosion from salt and coral dust<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bea.aero\/docspa\/1992\/5n-s920331\/htm\/5n-s920331.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BEA: Rapport relatif &#224; l&rsquo;accident survenu le 31 mars 1992 au Boeing 707 immatricul&#233; 5N-MAS exploit&#233; par la Compagnie Trans-Air Limited<\/a><span>the in-flight separation of both right engines en route Luxembourg to Kano, the emergency landing at Istres, the destruction of the aircraft by fire and the survival of all five occupants<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalsecurity.org\/wmd\/world\/france\/istres.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GlobalSecurity.org: Base de Istres<\/a><span>the Limousin squadron&rsquo;s pre-strategic then strategic nuclear mission at Istres, hardened shelters and ASMP handling in the DAMS, and the 9th Reconnaissance Wing&rsquo;s U-2 operating location OL-FR at the base<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dircam.dsae.defense.gouv.fr\/images\/Stories\/Doc\/MIAC2\/miac2_salon_lfmy.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DIRCAM \/ DSAE: MILAIP France, carte d&rsquo;a&#233;rodrome militaire SALON (LFMY)<\/a><span>the authoritative figures: ALT AD 197 ft, ARP 43 deg 36 min 11 sec N 005 deg 06 min 30 sec E, RWY 16\/34 QFU 158\/338, 2,001 m x 45 m rev&#234;tue, THR elevations 195 ft and 197 ft, the grass strips, the Provence derogatory glider sector, the bird hazard, the slippery-when-wet warning, ATS and AVT hours and the PPR requirement<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/base-aerienne-701-salon-provence\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Base a&#233;rienne 701 Salon-de-Provence<\/a><span>official name Base a&#233;rienne 701 G&#233;n&#233;ral Pineau, 450 hectares across Salon-de-Provence and Lan&#231;on-Provence, about 2,000 military and civilian staff, around forty aircraft, three grass runways and one paved runway, and the list of resident units including the CIFED drone crew centre, the NEDEX group, the ONERA laboratory and D&#233;fense conseil international<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/sites\/default\/files\/air\/Dossier%20de%20presse%20PAF%202026_compressed.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Dossier de presse Patrouille de France 2025&ndash;2026<\/a><span>the 2026 team by Athos position and seniority, twelve Alpha Jets, around forty mechanics, the winter and summer seasons, roughly fifty displays a year, and the base given as BA 701 G&#233;n&#233;ral Pineau<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/90-ans-patrouille-france-au-palais-congres-versailles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: 90 ans &mdash; la Patrouille de France au Palais des congr&#232;s de Versailles<\/a><span>verbatim quotes from the leader, Commandant Decorte, at the 27 June 2024 conference<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/ambassadeurs\/patrouille-france\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Patrouille de France<\/a><span>the PAF as part of the &#201;quipes de pr&#233;sentation de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace at BA 701, more than sixty aviators drawn from operational squadrons, Alpha Jet in service since 1981<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/mission-liberte-250\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Mission Libert&#233; 250<\/a><span>8 June to 4 July 2026, 85 aviators, Patrouille de France and A400M Atlas, overflights of the Statue of Liberty, the National Mall and Independence Hall, displays at Ocean City with the US Air Force Thunderbirds, and special Alpha Jet markings for ten Franco-American figures<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecole-air-espace.fr\/le-general-jean-marc-pineau-eleve-de-la-promotion-1942-de-lecole-de-lair-et-parrain-de-la-base-aerienne-701\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace: le g&#233;n&#233;ral Jean-Marc Pineau, parrain de la base a&#233;rienne 701<\/a><span>Pineau (1922&ndash;1971), promotion 1942, escape from Vichy France in 1943, transport pilot qualification in the United States in November 1944, command of BA 701 from 1964 to 1967, death in service on 21 January 1971, and the 1992 designation as parrain of the base<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/histoire-identite-patrimoine.ecole-air-espace.fr\/petite-histoire-du-batiment-de-la-direction-et-de-lenseignement-et-de-lamphitheatre-marin-la-meslee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace, histoire, identit&#233; et patrimoine: petite histoire du b&#226;timent de la direction et de l&rsquo;enseignement et de l&rsquo;amphith&#233;&#226;tre Marin-la-Mesl&#233;e<\/a><span>the architect Albert Tournaire (1862&ndash;1958) commissioned in 1935, construction from February 1938, the self-contained programme and the two reservoir towers, the wartime bombing and demolition, the 1944&ndash;1946 reconstruction, and Gaston &#201;tienne Le Bourgeois&rsquo;s Icarus and Bellerophon stage panels installed in 1948<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecole-air-espace.fr\/lecole-de-lair-et-de-lespace\/nos-installations\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace: nos installations<\/a><span>a 445-hectare campus with 183 buildings, a m&#233;diath&#232;que of more than 55,000 documents, and the residential, sporting and cultural facilities<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecole-air-espace.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/livret-daccueil-2024.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace: livret d&rsquo;accueil base a&#233;rienne 701, 2024<\/a><span>CFAMI inventory of twelve Cirrus SR20\/SR22, three Jodel D140, seven gliders and ten simulators; twelve Alpha Jets for the Patrouille de France and three Extra 330 for the EVAA; about 1,500 personnel, some 56,000 air movements a year and a main runway of 2,000 m by 45 m with three grass strips<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecole-air-espace.fr\/la-formation-de-lofficier-aviateur\/les-concours-externes\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#201;cole de l&rsquo;air et de l&rsquo;espace: la formation de l&rsquo;officier aviateur et les concours externes<\/a><span>the four external competition routes &mdash; pr&#233;pa streams MP, MPI, PC and PSI, licence Sciences politiques, licence Sciences, and concours sur titres &mdash; and the three pillars of military, academic and aeronautical formation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/questions.assemblee-nationale.fr\/q16\/16-12386QE.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Assembl&#233;e nationale: question &#233;crite no. 12386, remplacement de l&rsquo;Alphajet pour la Patrouille de France<\/a><span>question of 24 October 2023, ministerial answer of 16 April 2024: the future of the Patrouille de France is not in question and options including a modular aircraft covering display, Red Air and complement roles are being studied with the United Kingdom and Spain<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dircam.dsae.defense.gouv.fr\/images\/Stories\/Doc\/MIAC4\/miac4_avord_lfoa.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DIRCAM \/ DSAE: carte d&rsquo;a&#233;rodrome militaire AVORD (LFOA)<\/a><span>the authoritative figures: ARP 47&#176;03&rsquo;48.70&quot;N 002&#176;39&rsquo;06.68&quot;E, ALT AD 578 ft, RWY 06\/24 QFU 059\/239, 3,503 m x 45 m, THR elevations 546 ft and 577 ft, PCN mostly 62 F\/B\/W\/T with a rigid first 80 m off THR 06, NATO stopway 900 m and declared distances to 3,903 m<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/e-3f-systeme-detection-commandement-aeroporte-sdca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: E-3F Syst&#232;me de d&#233;tection et de commandement a&#233;roport&#233; (SDCA)<\/a><span>crew of 19, AN\/APY-2 range over 400 km, rotodome 9.10 m by 1.80 m at six turns a minute, endurance 10 h unrefuelled and 18 h refuelled, ceiling 10,000 m, four aircraft with the 36e escadre at Avord, MLU 2015 and FCU 2017, fleet to 2035<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/nos-aeronefs\/nos-avions\/awacs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: AWACS<\/a><span>four E-3F SDCA with the 36e escadre at BA 702, AN\/UPX-40 IFF in Mode S and Mode 5, contribution to the permanent security posture and to the deterrent<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/en\/node\/24339\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Troupes &#224; pied &mdash; Dissuasion nucl&#233;aire, base a&#233;rienne 702<\/a><span>BA 702 as a pillar of the deterrent, over 2,000 personnel, nuclear alert from 1966 with Mirage IV and C-135, Crotale from 1978, the GlobalEye to come, 87 personnel and Colonel Xavier Rival in the 14 July 2026 parade<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reservistes.defense.gouv.fr\/document-poste\/6724\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: pr&#233;sentation de la base a&#233;rienne 702 Avord<\/a><span>the four missions (EAT, EDCA, air defence with EDSA, CFDSA and ESTSA, and deterrence with ASMP storage and alert), about 2,400 staff, three communes, more than 1,100 hectares of which 850 enclosed, over 9,000 First World War brevets, the Mirage IV years and the base de d&#233;fense from 1 January 2011<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anciens-aerodromes.com\/?p=27282\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anciens A&#233;rodromes: Avord BA 702 &ldquo;Capitaine Georges Madon&rdquo;<\/a><span>13 September 1910 and 23 July 1912, Capitaine Bellenger, the first course of October 1912 with ten pupils, the 1916 scale of the school, the 1950 storm, the 1964 nuclear vocation, 30 July 1982 naming, the first E-3F on 19 December 1990<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/airwar-18.blogspot.com\/2018\/09\/la-luftwaffe-avord-1940-1944-unites.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Airwar 18: la Luftwaffe &#224; Avord 1940&ndash;1944 (unit&#233;s navigantes)<\/a><span>III.\/KG 27, IV.\/KG 27, IV.\/KG 4, FFS (B) 15, I.\/KG 1, I.\/KG 66, III.\/KG 40, KG 26 and III.\/SG 4 at Fliegerhorst Avord, the Allied raids of 5 February, 28 April and 25 June 1944 and the German demolition of 19 August 1944<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.departement18.fr\/dossier-pedagogique-aeronautique\/arkotheque\/client\/cher_expositions\/_depot_arko\/articles\/119\/telecharger-la-fiche-pedagogique_doc.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">D&#233;partement du Cher: l&rsquo;a&#233;ronautique du Cher sous domination allemande (1940&ndash;1944)<\/a><span>the raid of 11 May 1940 by about thirty Heinkels with four French soldiers killed and ten wounded, the use of Avord for training and raids on England, the 1944 Anglo-American bombing and the liberation of the Cher in September 1944<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.infociments.fr\/batiment\/ba-702-un-hangar-freyssinet-centenaire\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Infociments: BA 702, un hangar Freyssinet centenaire<\/a><span>built 1916 by Eug&#232;ne Freyssinet with the Limousin firm, 46 m span, 60 m long, 11.50 m useful height, 2,700 m2; eight built, two survived 1944, one demolished for the AWACS, the last now the ground-based air defence training centre<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irsem.fr\/storage\/file_manager_files\/2025\/03\/22-mai-1991-awacs.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CESA \/ IRSEM: 22 mai 1991, l&rsquo;AWACS entre en service dans l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;air<\/a><span>order of February 1987, aircraft 201 in service 22 May 1991, 202 on 25 July, 203 on 24 September, 204 on 21 November, unit opened 19 June 1992, 50,000 fleet hours by 2013 and the 2014&ndash;2016 mid-life upgrade<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defnat.com\/e-RDN\/vue-article.php?carticle=15278&amp;cidrevue=544\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Revue D&#233;fense Nationale: L&rsquo;avenir des E-3F de la 36e escadre de d&#233;tection a&#233;roport&#233;e<\/a><span>Paul-&#201;mile de Montlebon, no. 544, July 1993: three aircraft ordered 26 February 1987 and a fourth on 17 August 1987, first E-3F in French airspace 10 October 1990, operational 19 June 1992, over 400 people in 32 specialities, 65 flight hours per aircraft per month<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/avord-lantenne-radar-3f-awacs-demontee-premiere-france\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Avord, l&rsquo;antenne radar de l&rsquo;E-3F Awacs d&#233;mont&#233;e, une premi&#232;re en France<\/a><span>October 2023 antenna change by the ESTA of the 36e escadre with Air France and USAF help, the eight-metre antenna, the air-cushion cradle and the capitaine Charles quotation, aircraft back in service December 2023<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/commandant-arnaud-prost-ramstein-flag-surveillance-aeroportee-laventure-spatiale-europeenne\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Le commandant Arnaud Prost &#224; Ramstein Flag, de la surveillance a&#233;roport&#233;e &#224; l&rsquo;aventure spatiale europ&#233;enne<\/a><span>Ramstein Flag 26 at Kallax in northern Sweden from 8 to 18 June 2026, the French E-3F of EDCA 36 Berry, commandant Prost as an ESA reserve astronaut selected for a 2027 commercial station flight, and his 4 June meeting with Marcus Wandt<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/escadron-syderec-astarte-25-ans-au-coeur-dissuasion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Escadron SYDEREC &ldquo;Astart&#233;&rdquo;, 25 ans au coeur de la dissuasion<\/a><span>escadron 92.532 Astart&#233; created September 2000 at Br&#233;tigny-sur-Orge, transferred to BA 702 Avord in 2016, twenty-fifth anniversary on 1 October 2025, and what the syst&#232;me de dernier recours does<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/tournee-memorielle-du-c-135-avord-revenir-ses-racines\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Tourn&#233;e m&#233;morielle du C-135 &#224; Avord, revenir &#224; ses racines<\/a><span>the escadron de ravitaillement en vol Sologne created at Avord on 15 April 1966, the C-135 alongside the Mirage IV in the deterrent, the 3 April 2025 memorial visit and the type&rsquo;s retirement on 30 June 2025<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/actualites\/e-3f-awacs-engagement-continu-missions-reassurance-lotan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: E-3F Awacs, un engagement continu dans les missions de r&#233;assurance de l&rsquo;OTAN<\/a><span>11 March 2022: sorties of twelve to thirteen hours with about thirty people aboard over Poland and Romania, continuous engagement since 2014, and how the E-3F plugs into the NATO defence chain<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2025\/12\/30\/la-france-commande-deux-avions-dalerte-avancee-globaleye-a-saab-pour-11-milliard-deuros\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): La France commande deux avions d&rsquo;alerte avanc&#233;e GlobalEye &#224; Saab pour 1,1 milliard d&rsquo;euros<\/a><span>the 30 December 2025 order for two GlobalEye on Bombardier Global 6000\/6500 with an option on two more, deliveries 2029&ndash;2032, and Emmanuel Chiva on the E-3F costing about 100,000 euros a flight hour<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2025\/11\/30\/air-france-industries-va-assurer-la-maintenance-des-quatre-avions-e-3f-awacs-pour-dix-ans-de-plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Air France Industries va assurer la maintenance des quatre avions E-3F AWACS pour dix ans de plus<\/a><span>the ten-year DMA&#233; support contract of 30 November 2025, service to 2035, and the 2026 budget documents recording that the planned E-3F refit was significantly reduced<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2014\/02\/18\/le-premier-avion-e3-f-awacs-modernise-ete-livre-la-dga\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Le premier avion E-3F AWACS modernis&#233; a &#233;t&#233; livr&#233; &#224; la DGA<\/a><span>the 2010 FMS contract, American clearance in September 2012, work from June 2013, first aircraft delivered February 2014, about 340 million euros, Block 40\/45 standard, Air France Industries KLM E&amp;M with Boeing<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2024\/11\/11\/un-rapport-parlementaire-appelle-a-accelerer-le-remplacement-des-e-3f-awacs-de-larmee-de-lair\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): Un rapport parlementaire appelle &#224; acc&#233;l&#233;rer le remplacement des E-3F AWACS de l&rsquo;arm&#233;e de l&rsquo;Air<\/a><span>Fran&#231;ois Cormier-Bouligeon&rsquo;s avis on programme 146, verbatim: the E-3F as a strategic capability including for the airborne component of the deterrent, and why stretching to 2035 is unwise<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/questions.assemblee-nationale.fr\/dyn\/17\/comptes-rendus\/cion_def\/l17cion_def2425082_compte-rendu.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Assembl&#233;e nationale: audition du g&#233;n&#233;ral J&#233;r&#244;me Bellanger, commission de la d&#233;fense, compte rendu no. 82<\/a><span>hearing of 9 July 2025: the Falcon 10X, the first E-3F leaving service by 2030 at the latest, the contribution to nuclear raids and the choice of GlobalEye over the E-7<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opex360.com\/2025\/06\/21\/la-direction-generale-de-larmement-a-lance-un-appel-doffres-pour-remplacer-les-avions-dentrainement-xingu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zone Militaire (opex360): La Direction g&#233;n&#233;rale de l&rsquo;armement a lanc&#233; un appel d&rsquo;offres pour remplacer les avions d&rsquo;entra&#238;nement Xingu<\/a><span>tender published 15 June 2025, applications closing 19 August 2025, 32 Xingu left (22 air force, ten navy), a requirement expressed as 10,100 and 3,400 flight hours a year, training at Avord with an option for Lann-Bihou&#233;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wikimonde.com\/article\/%C3%89cole_de_l%27aviation_de_transport\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikimonde: &#201;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de transport<\/a><span>the school created at Avord on 23 July 1912, recreated November 1945 at Toulouse-Francazal, groupement &#233;cole 319 from 1965, the title &#233;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de transport 00.319 on 1 August 1994, named for Capitaine Jean Dartigues on 2 February 2001, the Flamant and the Xingu from 1983, and the escadron d&rsquo;instruction en vol Fourchambault<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traditions-air.fr\/unit\/photo\/ecole31900.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traditions Air: GE 319, &#233;cole de l&rsquo;aviation de transport d&rsquo;Avord<\/a><span>the school&rsquo;s aircraft at Avord: Siebel Si 204 in January 1950, NC.701 Martinet in 1951, the MD 312 Flamant from 1952 for more than thirty years, then the Xingu<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.traditions-air.fr\/unit\/escadre\/094EB.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Traditions Air: 94e escadre de bombardement<\/a><span>EB 1\/94 Bourbonnais then Guyenne at Avord on Mirage IVA, EB 2\/94 Marne at Saint-Dizier, EB 3\/94 Arbois at Luxeuil, and ERV 4\/94 Sologne at Avord on the C-135F<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/vintageaviationnews.com\/warbird-articles\/aces\/georges-madon.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vintage Aviation News: Georges Madon, the 41 victories of France&rsquo;s strategic ace<\/a><span>born Bizerte 28 July 1892, military brevet at Avord, 41 confirmed victories and about 64 unconfirmed, killed on 11 November 1924 steering his aircraft away from spectators during a tribute flight for Roland Garros<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.francebleu.fr\/infos\/societe\/avord-de-plus-en-plus-de-munitions-transitent-par-la-base-aerienne-702-8277894\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">France Bleu Berry: Avord, de plus en plus de munitions transitent par la base a&#233;rienne 702<\/a><span>Colonel Richard Gros on the fourfold increase in mat&#233;riel flows after the invasion of Ukraine, routing through Poland and Romania, and about 110 million euros of runway work to take the A330 MRTT<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itamilradar.com\/2026\/09\/08\/french-awacs-and-two-mrtts-converge-on-the-black-sea-signalling-a-coordinated-nato-air-operation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">itamilradar: French AWACS and two MRTTs converge on the Black Sea<\/a><span>8 September 2026 flight-tracking observation of an Avord E-3F with a French A330 MRTT from Istres and a NATO MRTT from Eindhoven heading east over the Black Sea<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ville-avord.fr\/base-aerienne\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mairie d&rsquo;Avord: la base a&#233;rienne<\/a><span>the commune&rsquo;s own account: the school of 1912, the pilots trained there, the naming for Capitaine Georges Madon on 30 July 1982, the 4e compagnie of the g&#233;nie de l&rsquo;air and the base as the area&rsquo;s largest employer<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/sites\/default\/files\/ministere-armees\/Chiffres_Cle%CC%81s_2026FR-webVF.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Chiffres cl&#233;s de la D&#233;fense 2026<\/a><span>Published 10 September 2026. The &#233;quipements tables are explicitly stated &#8220;au 31 d&#233;cembre 2025&#8221;; the French and English editions agree line for line. This supersedes the Chiffres cl&#233;s de la d&#233;fense 2025, whose tables are at 31 December 2024 and which the file was built from.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/dga\/actualites\/niveau-historique-commandes-passees-dga-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es \/ DGA: Un niveau historique de commandes pass&#233;es par la DGA en 2025<\/a><span>DGA end-of-year balance sheet: 11 Rafale, one A400M, one A330 MRTT and two H225M Caracal delivered to the air force in 2025, the Caracals being &#8220;sur une commande portant sur huit appareils&#8221;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dircam.dsae.defense.gouv.fr\/images\/Stories\/Doc\/MIAC4\/miac4_evreux_lfoe.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DSAE\/DIRCAM MILAIP France: MIAC4 LFOE &#201;vreux-Fauville ADC 01<\/a><span>Military aerodrome chart. ARP 49 01 43N 001 13 12E, ALT AD 465 ft, single runway 04\/22 with declared distances of 3001 m, width 30 m.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/base-aerienne-106\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Base a&#233;rienne 106 &ldquo;Capitaine Michel Croci&rdquo;<\/a><span>The official base page gives the creation date as 1 January 1937 and lists the resident units: EAAO, GAIA, ET 43, CMCC and the Musique des forces a&#233;riennes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dircam.dsae.defense.gouv.fr\/images\/Stories\/Doc\/MIAC4\/miac4_villacoublay_lfpv.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DSAE\/DIRCAM MILAIP France: MIAC4 LFPV V&#233;lizy-Villacoublay ADC 01<\/a><span>Military aerodrome chart. ARP 48 46 27N 002 11 29E, ALT AD 585 ft, runway 09\/27 of 1957 x 45 m, paved.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dircam.dsae.defense.gouv.fr\/images\/Stories\/Doc\/MIAC2\/miac2_luxeuil_lfsx.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DSAE\/DIRCAM MILAIP France: MIAC2 LFSX Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur<\/a><span>Military aerodrome documentation. ARP 47 47 14N 006 21 54E, ALT AD 885 ft (270 m), runway 11\/29 of 2433 x 45 m.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dircam.dsae.defense.gouv.fr\/images\/Stories\/Doc\/MIAC2\/miac2_cazaux_lfbc.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DSAE\/DIRCAM MILAIP France: MIAC2 LFBC Cazaux<\/a><span>Military aerodrome documentation. ARP 44 32 06N 001 07 53W, ALT AD 85 ft (26 m), single runway 06\/24 of 2398 x 45 m.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dircam.dsae.defense.gouv.fr\/images\/Stories\/Doc\/MIAC2\/miac2_orleans_lfoj.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DSAE\/DIRCAM MILAIP France: MIAC2 LFOJ Orl&#233;ans-Bricy<\/a><span>Military aerodrome documentation. ARP 47 59 16N 001 45 38E, ALT AD 412 ft (126 m), one runway only: 07\/25, TORA\/TODA\/ASDA\/LDA all 2404 m, rev&#234;tue. No unpaved or grass strip is published.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dircam.dsae.defense.gouv.fr\/images\/Stories\/Doc\/MIAC2\/miac2_solenzara_lfks.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DSAE\/DIRCAM MILAIP France: MIAC2 LFKS Ventiseri-Solenzara<\/a><span>Military aerodrome documentation. ARP 41 55 35N 009 24 19E, ALT AD 29 ft (9 m), runway 18\/36 of 2627 x 45 m.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.defense.gouv.fr\/air\/mieux-nous-connaitre\/carte-bases-aeriennes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minist&#232;re des Arm&#233;es: Carte des bases a&#233;riennes<\/a><span>The service&rsquo;s own base directory (37 entries). BA 188 Djibouti and BA 104 Al Dhafra are both filed under &ldquo;&#201;tranger&rdquo; (abroad); the overseas entries are Noum&#233;a, Guyane and the d&#233;tachements air.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"verified\">Figures verified 2026-09-13. Order of Battle pages are regenerated from a single dataset; if a number here disagrees with a Book of Beasts page, this page is the more recent of the two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"verified\">Photographs: Dylan Agbagni, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons &middot; Photos: US Air Force \/ Wikimedia Commons (public domain)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<style>#mfam .ph1{background-image:url(https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/armee-de-lair-rafale-hero.jpg)!important}#mfam .ph2{background-image:url(https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fr-dassault-rafale-b-c.jpg)!important}#mfam .ph3{background-image:url(https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/fr-mirage-2000d.jpg)!important}#mfam 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