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“The French Navy often has its gaze and sensors turned towards the sky and space. Satellites allow it to conduct its surveillance and anti-trafficking operations, to communicate with all parts of the globe and to collect scientific data”, recalled on twitter, on September 7, 2021, Admiral Pierre Vandier, chief of Navy General Staff. OPERATING IN AND THROUGH SPACE The Navy…
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While patrolling the Gulf of Oman, the Air Defense Frigate (FDA) Chevalier Paul visited a suspicious dhow, resulting in a major drug seizure. On Monday, December 6, 2021, a few weeks after seizing more than 2 tonnes of cannabis, a new operation, in direct support of the Combined Task Force 150 (CTF 150), was carried out on a dhow with…
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HMS Dragon faces a demanding two-week workout as she joins the French Navy’s biggest exercise of the year. The Portsmouth-based destroyer takes her place alongside 25 other warships, support vessels and submarines from half a dozen navies for a two-week test of the French fleet – and the ability of its allies to operate side-by-side in Exercise Polaris 21. It’s…
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