Air International 2022-11
B.Taghvaee - Ready for Rafale
303 / 4-EA is currently the oldest Rafale B of the French Air and Space Force which has been in service of ETR 3/4 since 2015. It was deployed to H5 Air Base in Jordan in 2018 from where it participated in Anti-ISIL/Daesh operation Chammal. It can be seen receiving fuel from a USAF’s KC-10A over Jordan.
140 ‘4-GS’ is currently one of the four Rafale Cs operated by ETR 3/4 ‘Aquitaine’. It has been temporarily transferred to the EC 2/30 ‘Normandie-Niemen’ at Mont-de-Marsan Air Base (BA118). Here it can be seen being used by of one of the pilots of the squadron during the rehearsal for this year’s Bastille Day Military Parade
This Rafale C (serial 142 ‘4-GU’) was with ETR 3/4 ‘Acquitaine’ until 2019, when it was transferred to EC 3/30 ‘Lorraine’. It is pictured in use by the RSD team during Langkawi Airshow in 2017
317 ‘4-HO’ is one of the ten Rafale Bs that ETR 3/4 has had in its service since 2013. Here it is backing away after refueling from a KC-135 Stratotanker over Africa on March 17, 2013
346 ‘4-FM’ is one of the Rafale Bs operated by ETR 3/4 ‘Aquitaine’. It has been loaned to the EC 1/4 ‘Gascogne’
Maj Francois is the current commander of ETR 3/4
325 ‘4-HX’ is one of ETR 3/4’s ten Rafale Bs, photographed in October 2020