What's with France ??

[Garry Shipton (RIP)]

They send 250 engineers to Lebanon and that's it.
Watched their Bastille Day parade on a french channel and they have heaps of equipment , albeit , nice and clean ,looking pretty and shiny,including wheeled 155mm tanks !!Thousands of troops in their kepis plus The Foreign Legion with their manicured beards.

[Jon Skagfeld]

Of course you must know that the Bastille Day parade is down the Champs d'Elysee.

Ah, yes, that tree lined street where, 50+ years ago, the German Army marched in the shade!

Even during the Cold War, NATO's greatest concern, should a Red Army breakout occur over the Fulda Plain, was not if the French could hold, but when they would collapse.

[sapper740]

Originally posted by Jon Skagfeld
Of course you must know that the Bastille Day parade is down the Champs d'Elysee.

Ah, yes, that tree lined street where, 50+ years ago, the German Army marched in the shade!

After first passing under L'Arc d'echec......pardonnez-moi, L'Arc de Triomphe.

[alleramilitaria]

lets be easy on the french.... with hezbulaha, the IDF, syria, the leb army, turky, france, and all the others that will be part of the UN forces it has to be confusing for the french....... who would they surender too? :dh:


i was with the french army for about a month. most of there gear is designed to work in central europe near heaps of spair parts, 3rd shop maintence, and a good road net. most of there equipment wont work outside that enviroment.

[sapper740]

Originally posted by alleramilitaria
lets be easy on the french.... with hezbulaha, the IDF, syria, the leb army, turky, france, and all the others that will be part of the UN forces it has to be confusing for the french....... who would they surender too? :dh:


i was with the french army for about a month. most of there gear is designed to work in central europe near heaps of spair parts, 3rd shop maintence, and a good road net. most of there equipment wont work outside that enviroment.

Not entirely true Dave. The French Army's kit might be suspect but the Airforce's Super Etendards and Exocets worked just fine in the Falklands. Just ask the survivors of the Sheffield, Atlantic Conveyor, and Glamorgan.