France is to strengthen its nuclear defence posture, with French President Emmanuel Macron announcing on 18 March that ...

President Emmanuel Macron has announced the reopening of Luxeuil Air Base, which will host 40 newly built Rafale F5 fighter jets equipped with ...

Fighter jets from NATO countries intercepted two long-range U.S. heavy bombers in intensive Arctic drills, as tensions ...

Homeland defence is not some abstract concept to the countries bordering Russia, nor is the nuclear threat, says defence analyst Francis Tusa. So, if the US could use a ‘kill switch’ to stop the UK ...

Two Rafale squadrons capable of carrying nuclear missiles will be deployed at Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur air base in eastern ...

France will accelerate Rafale orders and restore Luxeuil Air Base as a nuclear deterrence hub amid rising geopolitical ...

It’s a new day in Europe. Gone are the halcyon years of unshakeable American commitment to Europe’s defense against Russia.

Talk of replacing the American nuclear umbrella over Europe with the small British and French nuclear armories is in the air, ...

Charles de Gaulle’s insistence on French power and autonomy is being cited widely in France; one politician demanded that an ...

In 2022, an Italian refuelling aircraft took part in a French nuclear exercise for the first time. In early March, France hosted Nato ambassadors at the Istres air force base in southern France so ...

“W E WOULD BE safer if we had our own nuclear arsenal,” Donald Tusk, Poland’s prime minister, told his country’s parliament ...