the french defense ministry said in a short time the military could deploy
troops to the southern indian ocean and reunion either to respond to health crises
natural disasters or to participate in the protection of french territory
rafales had visited reunion before when they were also accompanied by mrtt
france's defense ministry said the deployment was from january 5th to february 3rd and covered
reunion djibouti and egypt in the first stage of the shikra mission reunion hosted two rafales from
the fourth fighter wing and an a330 mrtt from the 31st strategic refueling and transport wing
they flew 9 000 kilometers over 12 hours from france to get to reunion
reflecting france's long-range power projection
two french air force rafale warplanes visited reunion as part of a force projection exercise
along with an mrtt tanker the two rafale f3 rupees arrived at reunion on january 5th and departed a
few days later for djibouti they were accompanied by an airbus a330 multi-role tanker transport mrtt