Moroccan and US military personnel are preparing a new round of tests for African Lion 2027. Defense companies are expected to take part in the exercises, testing their equipment alongside the units involved. The first discussions were held in Agadir.
Twelve Moroccan pilots and their mechanics are taking part in an exercise with French Rafale jets at Orange Air Base. Facing simulated threats in the air and on the ground, the two forces are working on their coordination so they can eventually carry out joint missions.
The Royal Armed Forces are setting up new cyberdefense teams. To assess them, they want to take part in US exercises and add simulated attacks to future editions of African Lion.
The Tarik Ben Ziyad took part in five days of training off Toulon with the French Navy. Rafale and Mirage 2000 aircraft were deployed for an air defense exercise as part of a program combining naval and air operations.
The four Moroccan F-16s that arrived in France made the journey in a configuration designed to maximize their range. Fuselage-mounted tanks, underwing tanks and two transport aircraft: the deployment reveals the resources mobilized to make up for the absence of a Moroccan tanker.
Moroccan and American military personnel have just completed a training course in Agadir devoted to small drones. The United States shared its methods, but its soldiers also studied the experience developed by the Royal Armed Forces.
Two Moroccan F-16s flew at low altitude from Al Hoceïma while Spain deployed six F-18s, a frigate and its air defense system on the other side of the Alboran Sea.
A Panther helicopter from the Royal Moroccan Navy operated from a French frigate in the Mediterranean. The two navies swapped aircraft and platforms during exercise Chebec 26.
Morocco and Belgium have begun planning their joint military activities for 2027. The two armies are planning, in particular, training, exchanges of expertise and new joint exercises.
The chief of staff of the Spanish Army visited Melilla to examine the situation of the garrison, its equipment and its facilities. The visit comes less than three weeks after Spain’s highest-ranking military official visited Melilla and Sebta.
The Spanish military concludes a live-fire exercise this Friday in the Gulf of Cádiz, at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar. Air-to-air and air-to-surface missiles are being launched against aerial and naval targets.
The Moroccan frigate Mohammed V and the Algerian Erradii are sailing in the same military formation in the Mediterranean. The two vessels are participating in Phoenix Express 2026, a multinational exercise led by the US Sixth Fleet off the coast of Tunisia.