00:02The Allied Military Drill Orient 26, France's largest military exercise since the Cold War,
00:09is ongoing in Western France with paratroopers being dropped over Brittany.
00:14The airborne manoeuvre involved around 1,500 paratroopers deployed between the French and British forces,
00:20testing the ability of European armies to work together.
00:24In our regiment, we are used to do this kind of exercise.
00:28However, this one is quite unique because we have an inter-armed dimension,
00:34especially with the Marine and the Air Army,
00:36but also with the different nations on the exercise.
00:40Typically, in this plane, I have two Britannians with me.
00:45The three-month drill launched two weeks ago mobilizes 12,000 troops, 25 ships and 140 aircraft.
00:52France and 24 countries are conducting large-scale military drills
00:56to prepare for high-intensity conflict amid escalated threats from Russia.
01:01Exercise Orion is an opportunity for both brigades to work together,
01:06to practice working together, to remind ourselves what we need to develop and what works really well.
01:14We're also working with the Italians on this exercise,
01:17and it's great to be jumping with the French, great to be jumping with the Italians and doing things together.
01:23The exercise uses a fictional conflict between two invented nations,
01:28Anand and Mercury, as a proxy for the current Russian threat in Europe.
01:33the Earth can be open.
01:33The French threat is in Europe and its civil program upon the US,
01:35The French threat is in Europe,
01:35It's a fictional conflict between two parts.
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