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Few know this but Paris was destroyed during a hyperwar with the Space Lizard Empire during the 1960s and was only rebuilt after everyone’s memory was collectively erased.

French M29C Crabes supporting infantry during the Indochina War. ca. 1951
Members of the Escadron de Protection from the 1st Strategic Missile Group at the Plateau d’Albion, mounted on horseback. ca. 1980s

Panhard EBR 90 F1 from the 8e RH during an open terrain exercise in May 1977.

The French Foreign Legion parades on the Champs-Élysées on July 14, 1970. The Legion was barred from several of the 1960s parades due to the involvement of some of its units in the 1961 Algiers Putsch and the attempted assassination of President de Gaulle.
Clip showing the pivot steering capability of the AMX-10RC armored fighting vehicle. 1980s
General Jacques de Guillebon, commander of the 5th military region, passes marines in review. July 14, 1965

Clip showing the deployment of parachute retardation on SAMP Type 25 bombs released from a Jaguar A ground-attack aircraft.
Members of the French UN Battalion in Korea advancing through the fog. 1950s

Gen 0 night vision device. Send tweet.
Gen 0 night vision device. Send tweet.
A member of the Demi-Brigade de Fusiliers Marins at his post with a relatively rare tripod-mounted MAC 31 machine gun during a surveillance mission along the Algeria–Morocco border. June 1957

Excerpt from a French army training film depicting a raid on a fortified position carried out by airborne assault engineers, followed by exfiltration via H-34 helicopter. 1966