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The French Air Force has deployed several Rafale multi-role combat aircraft for a training exercise at Banak Air Base in Norway. Exercise Arctic Thunder involves participation from 11 Rafale fighters for air-to-ground weapons firing and 200 French airmen, including thirty aircrew from fighter squadrons 1/7 Provence, 1/91 Gascogne and 2/30 Normandie-Niemen.