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 "title": "Exercise Rummy: RAF Typhoons Escort French Rafale B on a Simulated Nuclear Strike Over the Mediterranean",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/exercise-rummy-raf-typhoon-escort-french-rafale-b-simulated-nuclear-strike-northwood-declaration/",
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 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-10-20T10:45:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-10-26T10:45:37.000+01:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaint-Dizier, 20 October 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * In Exercise Rummy on 20–21 October, Rafale B of France's Strategic Air Forces took off from Saint-Dizier on the evening of 20 October and flew a simulated nuclear strike over the Mediterranean, escorted by RAF Typhoons and supported by A330 MRTT tankers; no nuclear weapons were involved\n * Paris and London announced the exercise on 23 October and both place it under the Northwood declaration of 10 July 2025, which set up a UK-France Nu",
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