Lyon – Mont Verdun Air Base: Difference between revisions

'''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://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/6Fnt05Cae?url=web/20180329042935/http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D192%26Itemid%3D232=com_content&view=article&id=192&Itemid=232 |archivedate=1129 AprilMarch 20132018 |accessdate=9 April 2013 |deadurl=yes |dfurl-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://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/6Fnt05Cae?url=web/20180329042935/http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/index.php?option%3Dcom_content%26view%3Darticle%26id%3D192%26Itemid%3D232=com_content&view=article&id=192&Itemid=232 |archivedate=1129 AprilMarch 20132018 |accessdate=9 April 2013 |deadurl=yes |dfurl-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 [[ACCS|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|year=1997|pages=116}}</ref>

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130511144704/http://www.ba942.air.defense.gouv.fr/ ''Base Aérienne 942''] official site {{in lang|fr}}

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