French president Emmanuel Macron announced on Saturday the launch of a new space military command during a speech on the eve of the Bastille Day celebrations in France.
Speaking in front of a military audience at the French Defense ministry in Paris, the president added that the new command would eventually be part of his country’s air force.
The investment involved has yet to be determined.
“To give substance to this doctrine and ensure the development and reinforcement of our space capabilities, a space command will be created next September in the air force,” Macron said.
French Defense Minister Florence Parly said last year she was committed to giving France strategic space autonomy in the face of growing threats from other powers amid a race in space militarisation.
The French military spending programme for 2019-2025 has earmarked 3.6 billion euros for investments and renewal of French satellites.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation aims to recognise space as a domain of warfare this year, four senior diplomats told Reuters in June.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration announced a plan last year to create a new “Space Force” as the sixth branch of the military by 2020.
That fucking idiot couldn’t set up a checker’s board
In a related story, “New French Space Force In Full Retreat”.
I was going to say “now they can surrender in space”!
Great minds think alike!
Their Space Force will be staffed by the French Foreign Legion. You might want to rethink that retreat comment.
What army were you in again?
The French didn’t participate in George Bush and Tony Blair’s wonderfully conceived and brilliantly executed war in Iraq, and now they are cowards… Well, remember the French at Verdun 1916, still able to take part at the battle of the Somme that same year, with fewer men and more success then the British? Remember the fact that the French held off the Germans in 1914 and 1915, practically alone? Taking an overall 1,398,000 dead and 4,266,000 wounded in the process…
And for Americans, remember the Philippines, Corregidor and Bataan, that retreat ring any bells? Remember Kasserine Pass, where the Germans fvcked them up with a much smaller force? And how can the world ever forget about the Vietnam war, where the US got licked by a bunch of Vietcong in pyjamas???
Funny how the Russians, Belgians, Poles, Greeks, Norwegians, Dutch, Slavs (and like the Yanks did in Saigon in old ’75) etc., never have to listen to know-nothings who constantly berate the French for “surrendering” to the most advanced military that had ever existed…..This only 20 years after ever single family in the country suffered the crippling maiming, or death of a son, brother, father, or husband.
Here are some photos of some French “cowards” for you.
Space cadet.
This guy is just as big of knob as Jr Jack ass
They are cut from the same cloth
Whenever they meet, the way they carry on im expecting them to drop their pants any second.
Get a room .
Pedos?
Where have I heard this one before???
They hate Trump then copy him .1
Never know when the bugs are coming. Gotta be prepared
Setting us up for a new “space tax”