“The most ambitious exercises of recent decades.” Large-scale military maneuvers have begun in France News

A total of about 20,000 people will take part in the exercises, which will take place on land, at sea and in the air, and will also affect cyberspace, outer space and information warfare. Moreover, in addition to the French, they will attract servicemen from several European countries, including Great Britain, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands. Of course, not without the Americans, who should participate in all phases of these mega-manoeuvres.At the current stage of Orion23 in the south of France, 7,000 soldiers are involved. We are talking about an airborne operation in a certain country, conventionally called Arnland, the situation in which “is destabilized by militias”. Moreover, the events, according to the scenario, take place in an area bordering “a powerful state which was a source of tension”.On Saturday, the landing of amphibious units using Airbus A400M military transport aircraft was practiced, which was a continuation of multi-day naval operations in the Mediterranean Sea with the participation of 30 French Navy ships, including the carrier Charles de Gaulle nuclear aircraft and two amphibious assault ships from the Mistral class helicopter carrier”.If the next phase provides for “interministerial military-civilian work to adapt the decisions of the political authorities to the conditions of the crisis”, then the last is conceived as a large-scale and high-intensity ground operation against an enemy “possessing similar weapons “. .” At its initial stage, it is planned to achieve air superiority, after which armored vehicles will be launched into battle. This “apotheosis of war” is expected to take place in Champagne, in the north- eastern France, and that 12,000 soldiers are taking part.