Paris Air Show 2025: France provides 3D protection bubble

The French Air and Space Force is providing a 3D protection bubble to protect the Paris Air Show 2025, including the Nerod RF C-UAS pictured here. (SAIE)

France's Armée de l'Air et de l'Espace (Air and Space Force: AAE) announced on its website on 14 June that it was providing a 3D protection bubble to protect the Paris Air Show 2025 held at Le Bourget from 16 to 22 June.

The bubble is operated from a base aérienne projetée (BAP)-deployed airbase with 600 military personnel specifically dedicated to providing an air security system and protection to reinforce the AAE's permanent air security mission. It aims to provide continuous airspace surveillance and an immediate intervention capability as part of the inter-ministerial effort to secure the show, with the capability of detecting, identifying, and neutralising threats ranging from recreational unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to the most complex aerial intrusion.

The systems that the AAE has committed to the mission include E-3F airborne warning and control aircraft, PC-21, Mirage 2000D, Rafale interceptors, Fennec helicopters, and Reaper UAVs, as well as SAMP/T Mamba and Crotale air-defence systems and Nerod RF counter-unmanned aircraft systems (C-UASs), supported by a network of visual lookouts.

For more information, please see DSEI Japan 2023: MC2 Technologies supplies Nerod RF C-UAS to Japan .