📍 Pacific | Pacific Academy: Diversifying our offering to enhance the expertise of island nations   Two training courses were recently delivered by French instructors:   🚁 Drone (New Caledonia): Military personnel from Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Naoero, and Samoa were trained in drone piloting by French instructors.   🥊 Operational Instruction Detachment - Final Deployment Preparation (Fiji): Fijian military personnel underwent final deployment preparation: close-quarters combat, hand-to-hand combat, and combat first aid.   🎯 Objective: To enhance the operational capabilities of partner forces to support stability of the region and empower humanitarian interventions and rescue efforts in the event of a natural disaster.   🤝 Conducted under strategic solidarity, these training courses illustrate the concrete action of the @FANC_Officiel: building a safer, more resilient, and cooperative Pacific alongside our partners.

📍 Pacific, Clipperton Atoll | Flying the French flag   ⚔️ A frigate continues its sovereignty mission on Clipperton Atoll.   🎯 The French armed forces are present throughout the French exclusive economic zone. This regular presence contributes to the protection of these sites and the natural resources they hold.

📍 South Korea | PEGASE 2026 🇫🇷🇰🇷 ✈️ After Japan, the PEGASE 2026 mission is making a stop in South Korea, at the heart of a deployment spanning the entire Indo-Pacific region. 🌐 Strengthening a strategic partnership. Built on a historical bond, Franco-Korean cooperation relies on reciprocal expertise in cutting-edge fields, particularly counter-drone operations and space cooperation. This stop is further consolidating a partnership already proven during regional exercises (CROIX DU SUD, ADEX, KADEX). 🌍 Through a major deployment such as PEGASE, the French Air and Space Force contributes to keeping the Indian Ocean and the Pacific as open spaces, in accordance with international law and the principle of sovereignty.