This deployment responds to requests from regional partners, attentive to strengthening their protection in the face of increasing air threats. It is part of the extension of the defense agreements which bind our country to the latter.
In service within the Air and Space Force since 2010, the Mamba is an air defense system, capable of offering a protection bubble of several tens of kilometers for the benefit of French and allied forces or infrastructures. It can intercept 360° and simultaneously a wide range of threats, aircraft, cruise missiles, drones and ballistic missiles. Agile and highly responsive, it can be made operational in less than 30 minutes after arriving on site.
In theater, French soldiers, operators and technicians from the ground-air defense units of the Air and Space Force have led the entire deployment in close collaboration with regional partners, since the establishment of the equipment until the arrangement of positions. Under very short notice, they installed, configured and made the systems operational thanks to mastered technical and logistical know-how.
This deployment illustrates France’s capacity to offer its partners a modular system, adapted to their needs and quickly projectable. It testifies to the French desire to respond to the call of its partners in the region, by initiating a complete protection system, fully operational and integrated into the overall defense of the region.
The French Forces stationed in the United Arab Emirates (FFEAU) support French military assets deployed in the Arab-Persian Gulf and the northern Indian Ocean. The FFEAU regularly co-organize instructions adapted to the needs of partner countries in their permanent area of responsibility, particularly in the areas of desert combat and in Middle Eastern urban areas. Around 700 soldiers make up this joint force system, which is essential for implementing France’s defense policy and leading bilateral military relations with the countries in the area.
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