French Air Force has at the moment insufficient capabilities to reach the objective assigned to the armies (White Book 1994) to display a joint forces echelon to react immediately more than 5 500 km within 72 hours. The solutions for the future are based on equipement : A400M (22 tons to 5 500 km), a large carrier plane with very long range (100 tons in 5 500 km), or a multifunction aircraft transport and flight refueling ; but also based on the optimization of means use, from bilateral or multinational agreements within in the GAE and soon European with the EACC. The strategic autonomy in the air transport seeked by France, as well as Europe, is in the treck with A400M and the aerial exchanges.
