The 🇫🇷 Joint Staff - Military operations

Official account of the French Joint Staff. Latest news on 🇫🇷 military operations. Chief of the Defence Staff ➡️ @CEMA_FR French account ➡️ @EtatMajorFR

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🇫🇷➡️🇵🇱 French forces in motion for the Multinational Force Ukraine (MNF-U) exercise : KOALICJA 26.2

The delivery of the French contribution is carried out via different routes and means :

✈️ The Air and Space Force transports personnel and equipment

🪖 Equipment and vehicles travel by sea 🚢 or land🛤️

🪖 The CSOA* oversees the coordination of the entire operation

🎯 Objective: to test our rapid and coordinated deployment capability with MNF-U nations, including our Belgian partner 🇧🇪, from decision-making to the integration of forces on the ground.

Strategic mobility is the first essential step to the success of the exercise.

*Armed Forces Operational Transport Support Center

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November 11, 1918. Armistice.

One date and one word that are known by every French citizen: we hear about them in schools, in our counties, in the books, the documentaries and the media.

For our soldiers, sailors and aviators, the 1918 Armistice is an inheritance of peace and liberty : on operation theaters, on our military bases and alongside our fellow citizens, they honor and preserve our ancestor's memory under our flag 🇫🇷

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🇫🇷 and 🇦🇺 armies ready to act together for the benefit of populations in a humanitarian crisis context

🌏 In New Caledonia, our forces are training in the management of humanitarian air operations by articulating various actions in the MHANUU exercise :

- maritime rescue and medical evacuations ⚓
- air drops of equipment and humanitarian aid✈️

✔️ Why train in this context with our 🇦🇺 partners?

❓ HADR* operations aim to coordinate civil and military responses before, during, and after a natural disaster. International solidarity is often required : a country hit by a disaster is often assisted by its regional partners.

*Humanitarian assistance and disaster relief

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📍Uzbekistan | Strengthening our operational field capabilities together 🇫🇷🇺🇿

⚔️ A 🇫🇷 detachment from the French Forces in the United Arab Emirates @FFEAU_ALINDIEN and the Uzbek Armed Forces conducted joint training on key military skills:

- operating in an urban environment

- moving and operating safely: securing a building, undetected infiltration, obstacle and building descent by rappel

- combat first aid

🎯 Putting skills to the test in a night exercise combining all disciplines within a scenario (assault, infiltration, intelligence, casualty care and evacuation) with high realism thanks to the commitment and dedication of the 🇺🇿 instructors

Cooperation, sharing of skills, and streamlining of joint maneuvers 🇫🇷🇺🇿 💪

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Training together 🇫🇷 - 🇬🇧 on the eastern flank of NATO

Within the multinational 🇬🇧 battlegroup of NATO,🇫🇷 has integrated an inter-arms tactical sub-group (SGTIA) into the 🇪🇪 brigade as part of "BOLD HUSSARD"

🎯 This joint exercise includes training in the following areas:
- Inter-arms coordination (artillery, engineering, infantry, cavalry) 🪖
- Communications 📡
- Logistics support 📦

The combined expertises of our allies’ is essential to our efforts to defend Eastern Europe 🤝🏼

#StrongerTogether #WeAreNATO

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France 🇫🇷 fully committed to maritime security in the Gulf of Guinea 🌍

A 🇫🇷 amphibious helicopter carrier and its embarked group participated in the Grand African NEMo (GANo) exercise, alongside the Benin 🇧🇯, Nigerian 🇳🇬, Ivorian 🇨🇮, and Ghanaian 🇬🇭 navies.

➡️ GANo is an annual exercise co-organized by France and the coastal states of the Gulf of Guinea.
🎯 Aiming to develop and strengthen maritime security within the framework of the Yaoundé Architecture.

On the agenda: maritime rescue 🛟, combating piracy 🏴‍☠️, trafficking 🛑, and marine pollution ☣️.

A joint commitment for the common good and regional stability.

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🇫🇷🇬🇧 KOALICJA: The MNF-U is training to ensure a solid and lasting peace in Ukraine

The Multinational Force-Ukraine (MNF-U), formed from the Coalition of the Willing and under 🇫🇷🇬🇧command, is launching its first major exercise: KOALICJA

📅 November 9–22, 2026
📍In Poland, Türkiye, and France
👥 2,800 soldiers from 11 nations

Leading this exercise, Lieutenant General 🇬🇧 Bateman explains ⬇️

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🌊 Together with our NATO allies in the North Atlantic 🇫🇷🇬🇧

A 🇫🇷 destroyer sailed as part of the Royal Navy 🇬🇧aircraft carrier group led by HMS Prince of Wales, under the command of @STRIKFORNATO.

On the programme:
🔹 At-sea replenishment with @RFATideforce
🔹 Interaction with NATO's Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1)
🔹 Participation in the multilateral military exercise NEPTUNE STRIKE

🎯 Objective: to be capable to operate side by side with our allies, notably the United Kingdom, to protect the North Atlantic and European approaches.

📸 UK MOD © Crown copyright 2026

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In Mauritania, 🇲🇷 and 🇫🇷 soldiers are strengthening their skills at the Peacekeeping and Operational Training Centre (CMPEO)*

This action is held in the frame of TANDEM deployments that combine cooperation and training with our africans partners 🕊️

🪖 The training program includes :

1️⃣ Courses for instructors in various fields:

⚔️  Combat : mission preparation and briefing, reconnaissance, responding to ambushes, convoy escort and area control.
💥 Counter-mine : an overview of explosives and threats, information on improvised explosive devices and techniques for checking suspicious locations.
🎯 Marksmanship : firing positions and weapon handling, preparation of firing sessions and practical exercises.

2️⃣  Training for the preparation and execution of a convoy escort mission in an insecure area for 38 military personnel 🇲🇷

🎯 Strengthening our tactical and technical expertise to enhance regional security whilst improving our ability to operate jointly

*CMPEO : National centre tasked with providing tactical and technical training to Mauritanian military units in the local language (Hassaniya)

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Working towards a free, stable, and open Indo-Pacific space within the framework of the Pacific Academy (ACAPAC) 🌏

In New Caledonia 🇫🇷, courses organized by ACAPAC enable the training of security forces and armed forces from Pacific island states 🇸🇧🇵🇬🇹🇻🇵🇼🇰🇮 in the use of drones :

- Remote piloting of UX11 drones for mapping large areas
- Planning and conducting missions involving a drone platform

These interactions contribute to maintaining trusted relationships among Pacific partners 🌐

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🛡️ Cohesion and operationnal efficiency of NATO are the key to security on the Alliance's Eastern flank 🤝🏻

⚔️ 2 300 allied soldiers 🇫🇷🇷🇴🇧🇪🇱🇺🇲🇰 of the NATO battlegroup Romania train and adapt themselves in order to perform in collaborative combat.
The MOUNTAIN SPIRIT and WIND SPRING exercises strenghten their abilities of joint operations:

🤝  Integration of FR soldiers within a RO brigade
🤜🤛 Force-to-force manœuvres for enhanced realism
📡 Deployment of a command post on the field

🫡 Training's realism and drills between allies helps each and every one to enhance its capacities and to know its counterparts better: united by the common mission of NATO's defence

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The NATO Alliance's defensive posture is maintained daily by the Allies on the Easternflank of Europe 🛡️

🇪🇪 In Estonia, 🇫🇷 and 🇬🇧 soldiers of the NATO multinational battlegroup conducted the BOLD HUSSARD exercise to strengthen their ability to operate together in armored and infantry combat sequences:

'Force on force' combat simulation between 🇫🇷and 🇬🇧 combined-arms tactical subgroups

Armored vehicle halting sequence (maneuvers to constrain the enemy's advance using artillery support and an engineering platoon)

Trench infantry combat between 🇫🇷 and 🇬🇧 military personnel

#StrongerTogether #WeAreNATO

@BritishArmy @DefenceOps

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🪖 Supporting the training of the Ukrainian armed forces contributes to the security of Europe.

As part of 🇪🇺 mission EUMAM Ukraine, the French Forces organize and lead training courses fit to the operational needs expressed by the 🇺🇦 forces.

In Poland 🇵🇱, those training courses help 🇺🇦 soldiers to gain or develop abilities in specific warfares:

🎯 Infantry shooting
⚔️ Urban combat

🛡️ Concrete commitment to the enforcement of Ukrainian forces' defence 🇺🇦

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Committed to Lebanon’s stability 🇱🇧: French 🇫🇷 participation in a civil-military initiative supporting local civilian populations 🤝🏻

🎯 The French 🇫🇷 contingent deployed within UNIFIL* proceeded to hand over hygiene kits, representing 20 000€ in donations, to a union of cities in the Tyr region 🇱🇧, intended for internally displaced persons.

Coordinated with the municipal authorities of Tyre and the surrounding region, this initiative reflects France and its armed forces’ enduring commitment to supporting our Lebanese partner and its civilian population 🫂

*United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon

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🛡️French forces are committed worldwide to fight against illegal fishing and its consequences on maritime environment 🐟

📍In French Guiana, the French forces patrol with the maritime gendarmerie. It recently led to the seizure of :

🛑 36km of fishing nets on several boats ;
🛑 more than 14 tons of fish and 170kg of swim bladders

📍In the Pacific ocean, a 🇫🇷 frigate recently led control and visit operations on a fishing boat in high sea between the EEZ* of Kiribati and Tuvalu Islands

🔍 Check of the legality of the fishing activities, of the respect of prohibition of seizure of protected species, of compliance to environmental rules - all these actions being led with support of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission

⚖️ These operations are led in the strict respect of international maritime law

*Exclusive Economic Zone

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⚓ France's commitment to maritime security and freedom of navigation never stops.

🚨 Active contribution of a 🇫🇷 maritime patrol aircraft to an assistance operation in the Black Sea: 18 lives saved🛡️

🔍 In the Black Sea, an Atlantique 2 aircraft of the French Navy operating a maritime surveillance flight detected three surface drones targetting a civilian ship.

The aircraft and its crew were able to:

📢 Detect the threat and warn the ship's crew
📡 Share the ship's position to the competent authorities and help coordinate the relief operations with Bulgarian naval forces
🛑 Alert the other ships sailing in the area from potential danger.

Coordination, trust and operational efficiency between partners and allies 🤝

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🌍 French and Djiboutian forces cooperate tightly for the security of Djibouti and its region of East Africa

🚁 Demonstration of this trustful bond with a training of cadet officers of the Military Academy of the Djiboutian Armed Forces (AMIA) in helicopter embarkation/disembarkation techniques

This training was built by 🇫🇷 and 🇩🇯 soldiers and led thanks to the helicopter detachment of the French forces in Djibouti

🎯 A 100% operational immersion : coordination, procedures drill, progression in security and intensity under the blast of the rotor blades

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⚓ The French Navy is committed to maritime security in the Mediterranean alongside its 🇨🇾🇮🇹🇬🇷 allies

➡️ As part of the EUNOMIA 2026 exercise, a 🇫🇷 frigate trains ashore Cyprus with the allies of the QUAD MEDOR initiative

This yearly exercise includes various training sequences and allows the crews to enhance their shared expertises and competences in different naval warfares:

🛡️ Surface, anti-submarine and asymmetric warfares as well as air defence
🛟 Search and rescue
⚔️ Naval manœuvres as a task force 

By enforcing its ties with river navies of the Mediterranean, the French Navy directly contributes to maritime security in the area and maintains a high level of operational readiness within its crews 💪

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Well-coordinated and well-prepared allies : the first step to a strong NATO defence 🛡️

TITAN CORPORATION 26 exercise wrapped up in Bulgaria 🇧🇬 after involving 🇫🇷 soldiers of the NATO Battlegroup Romania and their 🇮🇹 comrades:

➡️ Phase 1 : organization of a tank challenge in order to evaluate the crews' abilities
➡️ Phase 2 : combined tactical manœuvres under 🇮🇹 command

The deployment of a logistical and support detachment with 150 French soldiers and 15 armored vehicles was a good way to evaluate  our projection capabilities with enhanced realism.

By integrating a 🇫🇷 squadron in an 🇮🇹 command structure, and by coordinating troops on the field, TITAN CORPORATION 26 reinforces the level of operational readiness of NATO on the Eastern flank of Europe 💪

#StrongerTogether #WeAreNATo

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🛡️ Training for the stability of Lebanon 🇫🇷🇱🇧

A detachment from the French Army is conducting training courses in Lebanon with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) as part of the bilateral partnership 🇫🇷🇱🇧, across various competency areas :

· Training for pilots and gunners on tactical armored light vehicles, focusing on vehicle combat and crossing skills

· Infantry internship including training for Lebanese non-commissioned officers in preparation for their exchange in a 🇫🇷 military school 🪖

These training programs give the opportunity to 🇱🇧 and 🇫🇷 forces to share their combat experience and to increase stability in the region.