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David Pappalardo
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🇫🇷 Commandant de la base aérienne 104 stationnée aux Émirats Arabes Unis 🇦🇪 🇫🇷 | Armée de l’air et de l'espace | Team Le Rubicon| Team #VORTEX | Usual caveats.
📍#BA104 | Puissance et élégance : quatre #Rafale du 1/7 “Provence” percent l’horizon, tranchant le silence doré du désert au coucher du soleil.
Quand la lumière incendie les fuselages au-dessus d’un océan de sable.
@armee-air-espace.bsky.social
November 2, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Un mois d’existence et le cap des 1000 abonnés déjà franchi 🚀 sur LinkedIn. L’aventure ne fait que commencer: rejoignez-nous pour partager le quotidien des #aviatrices et #aviateurs de BA104.

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@etatmajorfr.bsky.social @armee-air-espace.bsky.social
April 21, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Where could I possibly be ?
#Avgeek
April 17, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Heading to Colorado Springs for the 39th Space Symposium (and my last!).
Do not miss the 🇫🇷 French Touch Evening, for the opening night reception ! 🚀
April 8, 2024 at 12:37 PM
“The air war over Ukraine”
Glad to have answered Avedis Hadjian’s questions for #kallipolis and to see my 2022 article on Diagoras’s problem (Scowcroft Center & @lerubicon.bsky.social ) quoted there, alongside terrific other references.

➡️ www.kallipolis.co.uk/the-air-war-...
April 8, 2024 at 10:41 AM
In 2024 and 2025, we will celebrate the 200th anniversary of La Fayette’s 1824-1825 farewell tour of America.
What a great opportunity to immerse myself in the legendary history of the La Fayette escadrille 🇺🇸 🇫🇷
April 7, 2024 at 10:46 PM
Nous célébrerons en 2024 et 2025 le 200e anniversaire du retour triomphal du Marquis de La Fayette aux Etats-Unis.
Quelle belle occasion pour me replonger dans l’épopée mythique de l’escadrille qui porte son nom 🇺🇸 🇫🇷
April 7, 2024 at 10:45 PM
“It demonstrated that victory in modern warfare is often a matter of mass & endurance-which means that such conflicts are ultimately contests of eco & societal mobilization-& that, for all its early successes, a 🇺🇦 fighting agaisnt a larger 🇷🇺 still faced a very tough road ahead”
April 7, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Nice pieces from the 80s found in the archives bazaar.
February 3, 2024 at 5:11 PM
« The tree of life is rooted in the stars »
A fascinating day dedicated to Space !
January 31, 2024 at 2:15 AM
#MasterOfTheAir | The opportunity to recall that « a crew member on a british bomber had a shorter life expectancy than an infantry man in the trenches of WWI », as we can read in « The Bombers and the Bombed » by Richard Overy (2015)
Years
January 29, 2024 at 2:12 AM
Only in Kansas City.
January 19, 2024 at 2:21 PM
In the den of Strategic Air Command.
« Peace through strength »
January 16, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Seen in Puerto Rico, out of nowhere!
What else ?
January 3, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Starting the day with "Command" by Lawrence Freedman.
December 28, 2023 at 2:55 PM
Publication du Carnets de Vols n°144 sur l'Indopacifique par le Centre d'études stratégiques aérospatiales.
J'ai le plaisir d'y signer un papier sur le concept américain d'"Agile Combat Employment".
➡️ www.calameo.com/cesa/books/0...
December 18, 2023 at 12:00 PM
From ASOR Volume 2 Number 3, Fall 2023: "Remaining a Day-One Player" with Andy Hamann.

Read online: ow.ly/7FAX50Q8oyU
Journal: ow.ly/omsq50Q7Epl

#AUPress #ASORJournal #USAF #Airpower #Spacepower #MilitaryOperations #Allies #France
December 17, 2023 at 1:02 PM
My Sunday readings. What else ?
December 17, 2023 at 12:47 PM