Avord Air Base
Avord Air Base, or BA 702, named after Captain Georges Madon, is a base of the French Air Force located near Avord, near Bourges, in central France.
The base mostly supports a fleet of Boeing E-3F AWACS.
Airbase 702 hosts about 2500 personnel (French Air Force military and some civilian). Because of its strategic location in the middle of France it is extremely suitable as a multi purpose base. Therefore it is not only the homebase of the French AWACS sqn 'Berry' that is located here.
On the base a nuclear weapon storage area (WSA) is located containing FAF's stockpile of nuclear midrange air ground missiles ASMP. It also has 2 hardened alert facilities.
One is hosting 4 Mirage 2000N planes normally home based at Istres BA125 and at Luxeuil BA116 with a rotating cyclus for alert status for any nuclear deterrence. The other facility hosts KC135 tankers normally home based at Istres to be used on AWACS and strike missions.
The base is heavily defended by its own Air Defence sqn equipped with the Crotale AD system.
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