New Delhi, Feb. 2 -- From 22 September to 10 October 2025, the French Air and Space Force conducted VOLFA 2025, its annual major operational readiness exercise. Organised by the Air Defence and Air Operations Command (CDAOA), this high intensity training mobilised more than 1,000 airmen and approximately fifty aircraft across French territory, representing the most complex level of training for French air forces. Conducted from airbase 118 at Mont-de-Marsan, VOLFA 2025 was designed as a genuine air campaign to simulate realistic conditions of high intensity conflict. Colonel Jean-Christophe, head of the operational readiness division, emphasised that "VOLFA is the annual major synthesis exercise of the Air and Space Force, at an expert leve...