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French Navy Kicks Off Force-on-Force Drills in Mediterranean with Partner Nations, NATO

French Defense Ministry Photo

KUALA LUMPUR – The French Navy started a major force-on-force operational readiness exercise called POLARIS 21 on Thursday in the western Mediterranean.

Polaris 21, which comes from the French name for the exercise — Préparation Opérationnelle en Lutte Aéromaritime, Résilience, Innovation et Supériorité — also includes a segment on the Atlantic coast of mainland France. The French Army and Navy and partner nations Greece, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United...

https://news.usni.org/2021/11/19/french-navy-kicks-off-force-on-force-drills-in-mediterranean-with-partner-nations-nato

French Navy, Army Drill to Launch Helicopter Attacks From the Sea

An MV-22 Osprey from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 263 takes off from French amphibious ship FS Tonnerre on June 28, 2019, during exercise Semper Thunder at Camp Lejeune, N.C. USNI News photo.

KUALA LUMPUR – The French Army and Navy last week completed the Cormoran 21 exercise after more than two weeks of drills in the Mediterranean.
Cormoran 21 is a power projection exercise involving the joint amphibious and airmobile capabilities of the two services where 24 Army helicopters join...

https://news.usni.org/2021/10/18/french-navy-army-drill-to-launch-helicopter-attacks-from-the-sea

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