French and Moroccan Navies Conduct Joint Military Exercises in Gibraltar Strait

Anti-aircraft warfare against Moroccan fighters and a French Falcon 50, anti-ship warfare against a Moroccan patrol boat, and search for shipwrecked persons with the support of the Moroccan semaphore chain. These are the joint exercises that the two partners conducted from November 29 to December 11. Starting on November 29 at the quay in Toulon, the ACO CHEBEC 21 ended off Casablanca. Another participant in the exercise: Senegal, which deployed one of its officers on each of the frigates.

The objective of this exercise is to constantly strengthen the interoperability between the two frigates. "The sea exercise phase was particularly rich and allowed to raise the level of cooperation between the two partners," says the French Ministry of the Armed Forces. The ACO is an annual activity that "allows to maintain the ability of the two parties to operate jointly and to respond, if necessary, to a crisis situation at sea".