President Emmanuel Macron announced today that France will “increase and accelerate Rafale’s orders”, for the benefit of Air Force, as part of new investment in defense decided on the global geopolitical “change” during a visit.

Decisions on additional investments to respond to “accelerating events” will be announced “in the coming weeks,” the French state leader explained.

Macron said the Air Force and Space Force would benefit from “more Rafale orders”, Dassault Aviation’s French fighter aircraft. “It is imperative at the present juncture. It is also a natural choice to integrate the efforts of the Aviation to Ukraine, along with the concession of our Mirage,” Kiev, he added.

The Air Force had 108 Rafale last year, the Navy another 41 and France is currently expected to receive 56 additional aircraft. French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecorni recently spoke of the need to acquire 30 more rafale (20 for the Air Force, 10 for the Navy).

The air base in the northeast France, which Macron visited today, will also be “with a horizon in 2035 the first base to host the upcoming version of the Rafale and the ultrasonic nuclear rocket, a sample of the renewal of the modernization”.

He talked about a French investment of “about 1.5 billion euros” to adjust the installation.

While France and Europe decided to massively strengthen their defense against the ongoing approach that began between US President Donald Trump and the Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Macron once again as a leader of the armed forces. Atlantic Alliance and beyond it “.

“Our country and our continent should continue to defend, equip, prepare if we are to avoid war,” he said.

“No one knows how to say what will happen in the months and years to come. What I want is to be ready. What I want is to be protected,” he said as part of his opponents, especially in the far -right, accuse him of “playing with fears”.

In front of a Mirage, a Rafale and 200 with 300 uniforms, President Macron insisted on the nuclear deterrence that France is the only European country with Britain. “It’s an opportunity for our country. That is why we will continue to strengthen each of its components,” he said.

Macron announced in early March that he “decided to open the strategic debate on protection – through our deterrence – of our allies on the European continent”, responding to a “historic appeal” in this direction of the future Chancellor Friedrich Mertz.

The French president is later expected in Berlin today to meet the outgoing Chancellor Allaf Saltz and then with Mertz.