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Line 1: {{coord\|45\|51\|00\|N\|4\|47\|00\|E\|region:FR_type:landmark_source:dewiki\|display=title}} [[File:Base942MontVerdun.jpg\|thumb\|Lyon – Mont Verdun Air Base]] '''Lyon - Mont Verdun Air Base''' (''Base Aérienne 942'') is located to the northwest of [[Lyon]]. It is a duplicate of the headquarters of the [[French Air Force]] nuclear strike force at [[Taverny Air Base\|Taverny Air Base - BA921]] near [[Paris]], with an underground command center. '''Lyon – Mont Verdun Air Base''' (''Base Aérienne 942'') is located to the northwest of [[Lyon]]. It is a center for air defense operations transferred to the site from the now-deactivated headquarters of the [[French Air Force]] at [[Taverny Air Base\|Taverny Air Base – BA921]] near Paris, with an underground alternate strategic command center<ref name=ba942-2>{{cite web \|title=Les missions de la Base aérienne \|work=Base Aérienne 942 \|url=http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192&Itemid=229 \|publisher=Ministry of Defense \|language=French \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329042935/http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192&Itemid=232 \|archivedate=29 March 2018 \|accessdate=9 April 2013 \|url-status=dead }}</ref> hardened against chemical and nuclear attack.<ref name=ba942-1>{{cite web \|title=Organization générale \|work=Base Aérienne 942 \|url=http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192&Itemid=232 \|publisher=Ministry of Defense \|language=French \|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180329042935/http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=192&Itemid=232 \|archivedate=29 March 2018 \|accessdate=9 April 2013 \|url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name=arkin1985>{{cite book\|last=Arkin\|first=William M.\|title=Nuclear Battlefields: Global Links in the Arms Race\|year=1985\|publisher=Institute for Policy Studies\|isbn=0-88730-002-2\|page=[https://archive.org/details/nuclearbattlefie00arki/page/285 285]\|author2=Fieldhouse, Richard W.\|url=https://archive.org/details/nuclearbattlefie00arki/page/285}}</ref><ref name=nwdbv1>{{cite book\|last=Norris\|first=Robert S.\|title=Nuclear Weapons Databook Volume V: British, French, and Chinese Nuclear Weapons\|year=1994\|publisher=Westview Press\|isbn=0-8133-1612-X\|page=236\|author2=Burrows, Andrew S. \|author3=Fieldhouse, Richard W. }}</ref> The location includes the South Sector Operations Center of the ''Commandement de la Défense Aérienne et des Opérations Aériennes'' (CDAOA or Air Defense and Operations Command), which is connected to [[NATO]]'s [[Air Command and Control System]] (ACCS).<ref name=ba942-2/><ref name="ssi1">{{cite book\|title=Command in NATO After the Cold War: Alliance, National and Multinational\|editor=Young, Thomas-Durrell\|publisher=Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College\|~~date~~year=1997\|pages=116}}</ref> ~~== Other facilities ==~~ Besides the Air Force facility at Taverny, the [[French Navy]]'s counterpart facility, controlling the [[ballistic missile submarine]] strike force (''[[Force océanique stratégique]]'' - FOST), is located near Paris at [[Houilles, Yvelines]]. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== ~~{{Portal\|Lyon}}~~ ~~[[fr:~~{{Commonscat\|Base aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun]]\|Lyon – Mont Verdun Air Base}}▼ [[Category:French Air Force bases]]▼ * [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511144704/http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/ ''Base Aérienne 942''] official site {{in lang\|fr}} [[Category:Nuclear bunkers]]▼ {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Lyon - Mont Verdun Air Base}} ▲[[Category:Installations of the French Air ~~Force~~and ~~bases~~Space Force]] ▲[[Category:Nuclear bunkers in France]] [[Category:Continuity of government]] [[Category:~~Disaster~~Emergency ~~preparedness~~management in France]] [[Category:Nuclear command and control]] [[Category:Nuclear weapons program of France]] [[Category:Organizations based in Lyon]] {{France-struct-stub}} {{nuclear-weapon-stub}} {{fort-stub}} ▲[[fr:Base aérienne 942 Lyon-Mont Verdun]] ~~[[ja:リヨン＝モン・ヴェルダン空軍基地]]~~