Ramses 2016
From 8 to 10 March 2016, the French carrier group will participate with the Egyptian armed forces to exercise
Ramses 2016 .
This planned exercise comes within the framework of military cooperation between France and Egypt, one of our main partners in the region. Joint maneuvers will be conducted in areas of Egyptian exercises, over land and sea.
They aim to strengthen our interoperability in air and naval areas where cooperation between the two countries is already highly developed.
Evidenced by the many regular bilateral interactions during stops building deployed as part of the permanent presence of France in the Eastern Mediterranean or on the occasion of regular exercise as
Cleopatra , held every two years alternately in France and Egypt .
Based on the exchange of expertise, know-how and procedures,
Ramses materializes again good operational cooperation between French and Egyptian forces, which realize such complex combined maneuvers.
Besides the aircraft carrier
Charles de Gaulle and its air wing, the
Rafale Egyptians will be engaged in the exercise. For the naval part, Egyptian multi-mission frigate and its French sister ship will participate in dynamic interactions.
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french navy D650 Aquitaine and egyptian Fremm FFG-1001 tahya misr