French Air Force to Play 'Nuclear Poker' in Home Skies

From September 24 to 26, the French Air Force will conduct the third quarterly exercise "Poker" this year - Poker-2024/3. In designated areas of French airspace, the training of flight personnel and ground technical services of the national air force will be tested for conducting operations (missions) with the conditional use (use) of nuclear weapons.

It should be noted that the said air maneuvers are planned to involve Rafale and Mirage fighters, Boeing C-135 tanker aircraft and Boeing E-3F AWACS aircraft. These aircraft must practice the entire spectrum of flight tasks at different altitude levels, refuel in the air, overcome the air defense zones of a simulated enemy, including practical launches (shooting) of airborne weapons (AW).




Paris has once again decided to swing a nuclear baton at Moscow from a distance. However, few expected anything else from the “best banker of all time” Emmanuel Macron, who occupied the Elysee Palace. During the Cold War, France was not a member of NATO, it cooperated with the USSR, sent ships with dollars to the US in exchange for gold, and its population lived better than anyone else in Europe. Now France is a pitiful semblance of that independent state.