A joint marine exercise between Egyptian and French naval forces\u2019 units dubbed \u2018Cleopatra-2017\u2019 commenced on Monday, and will span several days in Egypt\u2019s territorial waters, confirming strategic and military partnership between Egypt and France.<\/p>\n
Together with Egypt\u2019s multi-tasking F-16 aircrafts, several naval units including a French Mistral-Class helicopter carrier, frigates, rocket launchers and anti-submarine aircrafts are featured in the training.<\/p>\n
The training focuses on inspection of suspicious ships, traffic signal exercises, helicopter landing and take-off procedures from naval unit surfaces, securing naval units with defense weapons, and implementation of marine landing for personnel and equipment in Mistral-class aircrafts.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Mahmoud Hijazi, the Egyptian Armed Forces\u2019 Chief of Staff, met with the Somali Army\u2019s commander-in-chief, Major General Ahmad Muhammad Jamaeli and his accompanying delegation yesterday.<\/p>\n
They discussed several issues of mutual concern, including boosting military and security cooperation in various fields. The meeting also discussed developments on the local and regional arena and their implications on the region\u2019s security and stability.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, Lieutenant Genera Hegazi stressed that historic ties between the Egyptian and Somali people are deeply rooted, especially regarding the countries\u2019 armed forces.<\/p>\n
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A joint marine exercise between Egyptian and French naval forces\u2019 units dubbed \u2018Cleopatra-2017\u2019 commenced on Monday, and will span several days in Egypt\u2019s territorial waters, confirming strategic and military partnership between Egypt and France. Together with Egypt\u2019s multi-tasking F-16 aircrafts, several naval units including a French Mistral-Class helicopter carrier, frigates, rocket launchers and anti-submarine aircrafts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":20484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7863],"tags":[13451,13449,13450,13453,13452],"class_list":["post-20483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english-section","tag-confirms","tag-egyptian-french-naval","tag-exercise","tag-military-partnership","tag-strategic"],"yoast_head":"\n