A DETACHMENT of two Mirage F1CR and one Mirage F1B combat aircraft from the French Air Force (Armée de l'Air - AdlA) deployed to the Russian Air Force's 3958th Aviation Base at Savasleyka, 250 miles (400km) east of Moscow, in late August. The aircraft were from Escadron de Reconnaissance (ER) 2/33 'Savoie' at Base Aérienne (BA) 118 Mont-de-Marsan, Aquitaine. The Mirages, together with 60 French airmen, arrived at Savasleyka on August 18 and returned home on the 23rd. Two Transall C-160RS and one C-130H-30 Hercules provided support. The Mirages participated in a four-day joint exercise flying over the Nizhny Novgorod and Tver regions. They undertook formation flights with four Russian Air Force MiG-29SMTs, simulating air-to-ground attacks and flying with mixed French-Russian crews in two-seat MiG-29UBM combat trainers.
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