In July 2021, a French Dassault Mirage 2000 Fighter Jet crashed into the Sahara Desert in Northern Mali. Although the aircrafts two crewmen safely ejected, there was the possibility that both would be captured by enemy forces and so an immediate rescue operation involving British and French forces was initiated.
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Ah! Co-operation, are the French still sending us their illegal immigrants, in boats across the English Channel?
Squad leader Charlie Brown 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Chinook…probably armed forces favorite transportation vehicle…also the Blackhawk, and if you are in SOF in the US, their classified Stealth Blackhawks flown by the 160th SOAR Nightstalkers (eg. The one's used to kill Osama Bin Laden by SF group SEAL Team 6/DEVGRU). But for payload, you can't beat the Chinook.
With the french helping all the criminals cross the channel we should be pulling all support
And what thanks do we get, a daily dinghy deluge from "war torn" France.
Beyond the political 🐂💩, brothers in arms stick together!
The British and French military co operate regularly its idiot politicians that screw things up
The story of the Russian pilot Maj. Roman Filipov and his last stand after being shot down in Syria in 2018 would make a good video.
Even without the accent it took me exactly until 0:25 to figure out this video was made by people from the UK. You Brits are so predictable.
I swear, first read I thought it said, "The rescue of two downed Airmen in the Mall!"
Love that the RAF crew put that beautiful big flag in the chinook so the French could admire it throughout their flight.
Squadron leader "Charlie Brown" cannot be his real name!
Is Snoopy his wing man?🤣😂🙃😊
The French still using the Mirage. Now that is a surprise.
LRRG are out there too in Geo
Great vid, as always.
Could you do operation barras next that is such a cool story that i feel dosent get told enough
Terrific work. No one gets left behind. Especially down fighter pilots.
bosh! the british showing the French how its done once again!
Squadron Leader Charlie Brown you say? Was Snoopy and his dog house involved in these aerial operations? The
How this gets put up on a channel supposedly recognising exceptional courage and professionalism (that's my interpretation anyway of "their names liveth evermore"), is beyond me.
Seems to be a case of eurocentric sensibilities, and an inner capital city of a first world country mentality.
Good the choppers were deployed and available. Great that the French air crew were recovered. Wonderful.
But you might as well report every rescue of a stranded hiker off the Coast of the UK – where wind and weather are likely far worse for flying than Mali for much if the time.
As an African I really get irritated by this "Dark Continent" mentality of Europeans. As if every white man action in sub-Saharan Africa is somehow outstanding and heroic. Pu-leeese!
"Malfunction"
What’s up with the Mirage Dassault’s terrible reliability problems??
/geo ex machina
Just a comment about the pronunciation of the Chinook. In America, at least, it is pronounced as if it were spelled Shinook. It refers to a warm winter wind that will raise the temperature enough to thaw the ice and snow. It will usually come from Canada here in Montana. Don't know why the helicopter was named after that warm winter wind. Thanks for the video. That part of Mali looks a lot like the American Southwest.
considering the french had been fighting in mali for a number of years, do they really not have any heavy lift helicopters of their own? seems bizarre.
WOW, thanks for publishing this amazing integrated behind the scenes work!!!
You would never read of this positive and successful work in the news, only the failed attempts.
A job very well done! It's great to see the ol' empires working side by side to accomplish their mission!
I think the relationship between the British and French militaries is basically the relationship between Legolas and Gimli.
Gotta love how there's a CLEARLY DEFINED BORDER in Ireland LMFAO. Being subtly racist right there. Bad.
One thing I have noticed after watching many of his videos is that any video covering the French has less respect. A video about two commandos who died saving hostages had comments which where wildly unrespectful and if posted on a video about British or American soldiers who died they would've been booed with 50 + comments. Seriosuly, most of you are very respectful and polite but a couple need to loose your double standards and learn respect
The battle of goose Green 🇬🇧vs 🇦🇷 in Falklands war my sugestion of next episode
I don't understand how you are not getting more subscribers and views on your videos. They are so well made and narated , keep it up! love your videos,
Thanks again for bringing us these stories
Foreign imbecile colonizers who still believed continents outside Europe are subject to be colonized.
Legend has it the Boeing sales staff still come into the office early in case there's a phone call from Paris
What is France military doing in Africa?
Current governments (Tories and Macron) would either hide this information or lie and say "British Rescued French" etc… just so they win popularity via manipulation…
Yet 99% of the British population would be happy simply knowing British and French forces are still working successfully together.
Cooperation beats competition… every… single… time.
Thanks!
French media:”The helicopters were French.”
Me:”I dunno why the UK & everyone else tolerates the French.”