French Air Force

The Dassault Rafale F3R fighter jets were declared fully operational by the French Air Force and Navy....

Three French military planes were intercepted by the Russian Air Force over the Black Sea....

A Rafale fighter jet hit a power line near Castellet, southeastern France, depriving locals of electricity for four hours....

French and Indian Rafale fighters will fly together in the Desert Knight 21 exercise, one of the stops of the French Air Force’s “Skyros” campaign....

The French Air Force received the first modernized Mirage 2000D on January 7, 2020....

A French military dog jumped from an aircraft wearing an oxygen system ‒ a world first....

An Airbus A400M of the French Air Force landed on the tarmac of Nantes-Atlantique airport. Onboard the unusual aircraft were four patients from Lyon, a city badly affected by the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic....

During an operation of the French military in the Sahel region, airstrikes carried out by Dassault Mirage 2000D fighter jets helped neutralize at least 50 insurgents from a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda....

The French Ministry of the Armed Forces confirmed an order for 12 Rafale fighter jets from Dassault Aviation to replace the second-hand aircraft taken from the French Air Force inventory for the benefit of Greece. The contract must be signed before the end of 2020....

The French Ministry of the Armed Forces placed a firm order for a new batch of three A330 MRTT “Phénix” aerial refueling tanker aircraft. The acquisition is part of the €15 billion support plan for the country’s aerospace industry announced in June 2020....