Is the French Air Force Ready to Provide Forward Deterrence?

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Paris carried out Operation Poker.

Le Figaro

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REPORTING - Le Figaro was invited to attend an exercise simulating a nuclear air raid.

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Forty French Air Force aircraft were mobilized during the night of Monday to Tuesday for Operation Poker. This training has taken place several times a year since the 1960s. It simulates a nuclear attack and allows the armed forces to consider all scenarios.

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Nearly 40 aircraft and the entire operational line of the Air and Space Army were mobilized in a large-scale training during the night of Monday to Tuesday. The objective of Operation Poker: to carry out a nuclear raid.

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The Air and Space Army led Exercise Poker, a nuclear raid simulation designed to train its strategic air forces that it has been conducting four times a year since 1964.

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Operation Poker simulating an enemy nuclear raid is repeated four times a year since the first warning of the airborne nuclear component in October 1964.