French President Emmanuel Macron has announced plans to increase and accelerate orders for Dassault Rafale fighter jets and to reinstate Luxeuil-Saint-Sauveur Air Base as a key component of France's nuclear deterrence strategy.

French President Emmanuel Macron also announced a modernisation of one of the country's main air bases with the latest nuclear missile technology. View on euronews

France will buy more Dassault-made Rafale warplanes than planned, President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday during a speech held on a military base in the east of the country. "We are going to increase and accelerate our orders for Rafales,