The 🇫🇷 Joint Staff - Military operations

📍Norway | Atlantic 2 in the High North✈️   🔍Maritime surveillance flights in coordination with our 🇳🇴 allies: ➡️ Optimal cover of operation zones ➡️ Sharing tactical picture for situational awarness   🎯🇫🇷 presence in the area fit within strategic partnership 🇫🇷🇳🇴, contributing to collective defense among @NATO allies   #Together for the security in Europe 🛡️

📍 Finland | 💥 Ambush training for the French detachment mobilized during the #COLDRESPONSE exercise. 💪 Train hard, adapt fast, stay ready despite extreme winter weather.

📍Greenland | Arctic cold weather exercise #UPPICK26🇫🇷🇩🇰    ❄️-30°C, frozen fjord: 230 kms of snowmobile infiltration for French soldiers alongside their Danish counterparts 🎯Identify and prepare a suitable area for landing an A400M on a floating ice runway for the first time and facilitate the re-embarkation of forces   🤝Improve our ability to operate together in extreme environments

📍French Guiana | Fighting illegal fishing ⚔️   🌊 As part of the interministerial mission #MOKARRAN, our forces in French Guiana conduct control actions alongside the internal security forces   🛡️ Protecting the environment, maritime ressources, and France's sovereignty at sea

📍Eastern Mediterranean | The French Carrier strike group @French_CSG patrols with our allies 🤝 ➡️ Aeromaritime setup 100% ready after sailing from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean - and relying on allies within the carrer strike group 🇪🇸🇳🇱🇮🇹🇫🇷 for the escort of FS Charles de Gaulle 🛡️Contributing to the 🇫🇷 defensive posture on order to protect our military plots, our citizens, our allies and partners 🔍Surveillance of aeromaritime spaces ⚓️ Active coordination with pour European and NATO allies on a dense and complex maritime zone 🇫🇷 Navy fully committed to peace, stability and security of maritime spaces 🌍 @Cecmed_Off @ItalianNavy

📍Dominican Republic | 20 years of military cooperation 🇩🇴🤝🇫🇷 - DUNAS 26 exercise   🇫🇷 and 🇩🇴 soldiers trained together, teaming up  : ➡️ Various warfares at stake: nautical drills, infantry warfare and combat hardening    🛡️DUNAS embodies a major exercise for regional cooperation and security in the Carribean  @FAA_Officiel @EjercitoRD

📍Norway | Team work makes the dream work  🤜🤛   🇳🇴🇩🇪🇩🇰🇪🇸🇮🇹🇳🇱🇫🇷 rock steady to defend the Alliance 🛡️   ⚔️ COLD RESPONSE 26: NATO allies combining sea, land and air maneuvers in Arctic environment   🎯NATO teamwork to enforce peace, stability and freedom of navigation in Arctic and High North areas 🛡️ #StrongerTogether #WeAreNATO

✈️ French Air Force fully committed alongside our allies and partners 🛡️ 📍In the Near and Middle-East : ➡️ Taking part to the protection of allied air spaces ➡️ Logistics routing with transport aircrafts in order to maintain lasting operational efforts   📍In Eastern Europe : ➡️Aircrafts deployments for patrol flights in NATO's air space from the Baltic Sea to Romania   📍Central Mediterranean : ➡️ Joint training with the 🇬🇷 Air Force #INIOCHOS   🇫🇷 aviators are determined to protect France, Europe and our allies 🤝 @CDAOAofficiel

📍France | Develop competences to support  🇫🇷🤝🇺🇦   🤝 As part of the 🇪🇺 #EUMAM mission, 🇫🇷 soldiers train Ukrainian troops in various fields, contributing to🇺🇦 operational capabilities:   🔧 Maintenance of artillery pieces and fighter jets ✈️ Pilot training on Mirage 2000-5F fighter jet   🛡️ Supporting Ukraine's forces and contributing to Europe's long-term security alongside @DefenceU

📍Lebanon | Freight delivery in support of 🇱🇧 armed forces   ✈️ An A400M aircraft transported equipment in order to contribute to the operational readiness of the Lebanese armed forces   🤝 A demonstration of the commitment of the French Armed Forces alongside their Lebanese partner, directly affected by the crisis in the region.

📍Lebanon | French peacekeepers deliver food and water to 🇱🇧 civilian population   ➡️ Coordination of the 🇫🇷 peacekeepers of the 🇺🇳interim force with the International Red Cross to organise the delivery in villages of the Haddatah area (South Lebanon)   🫴 Donation of tons of food and water by the 🇫🇷Forces   🛡️ Determination and commitment to support Lebanon, its armed forces and its population

📍Indian Ocean | 🇫🇷 task group Jeanne d'Arc patrols under #EUNAVFOR ATALANTA tactical command 🇪🇺   ⚓ Sailing off the Horn of Africa and training at sea with ATALANTA flagship, ITS Bianchi 🇮🇹   🤝 🇪🇺 allies committed to maritime security in a strategic area for maritime trade @ItalianNavy @EUNAVFOR

📍Greece | air training 🇬🇷🤝🇫🇷 ➡️ #Iniochos26   ✈️ Air training between 🇬🇷🇫🇷 fighter jets squadrons, including low altitude navigation 💪 Determination of 🇪🇺 partners to act for a lasting cooperation🛡️

📍Eastern Mediterranean | FS Charles de Gaulle and its strike group in position and ready to act 🛡️   ⚓ Reactivity and efficiency of the @French_CSG to relocate in the Mediterranean sea: European solidarity and support alongside our partners and allies in the Middle East   ➡️ Contribution to an adapted tactical setup, guaranteeing readiness to act in the area 🌍   🇫🇷 forces committed to security in the area with our allies and  partners - and operating for autonomous situational assessment  @Cecmed_Off

📍Estonia | 🇪🇪🇫🇷 Team up on the field 🤜🤛   ⚔️ Infantry drills in complex environment and tranchees maneuvers   🎯 Hard work on the field between @NATO allies makes our collective defence work 🛡️

📍Romania | Sharing the sky to defend it 🛡️   ✈️ @NATO allies led an #AirShielding mission : ➡️ Joint maneuvers including air-to-air refuelling with a 🇫🇷 tanker and various types of fighter jets 🇷🇴🇩🇪🇪🇸🇫🇷   💪 Training to strengthen cooperation and joint capabilities among the Alliance.   🛡️ Together for the security of Europe's eastern flank.

French Mirage 2000D and A330 MRTT aircrafts flying jointly with our NATO allies in Eastern Europe✈️   Cooperation at its best to defend the Alliance' air space 🛡️

📍Finland | Winter Training as an induction to #COLDRESPONSE exercise ❄️   🤝 🇫🇷 and 🇮🇹 troops conduct arctic warfare training under 🇫🇮 supervision   🎯Focus on mastering cold-weather equipment and operating in extreme conditions to stay mission-ready   ❄️Enhance collective readiness to operate #together in demanding conditions   💪Train hard. Adapt fast. Stay ready.

📍Eastern Mediterranean | 🇫🇷 destroyer on station off the coast of Cyprus ⚓   ➡️ 🇫🇷 committed to supporting 🇨🇾 in coordination with our european allies, after its territory was targeted   🛡️ European solidarity and commitment to regional stability

📍 French Guiana | 🇫🇷 armed forces and internal security forces put pressure on illegal gold miners   🛑 Control of a river in the East of the by setting up a floating dam   🔍 Land comb with air surveillance support   🎯 Seize or destroy the gold miners' equipments and forbid any attempt of re- installation   ➡️ Tangible results with cleaner waters and lesser oils and mercury pollution   🛡️ Strong and consistent commitment to protect French Guianas territory