France: how the table of the "stolen soldier"

The military parade organized by the government of Emmanuel Macron Sunday to celebrate the French National Day was intended to show the modern equipment and technology of the military power of this country. About 4300 soldiers, 196 vehicles, 237 horses, 69 aircraft and 39 helicopters attended the parade. But what attracted attention, it's the "flying soldier"who flew on a board.

This is the Flyboard, a kind of board that can fly up to 200 kilometers at the hour to a maximum altitude of 2,000 meters. It is powered by five turbo engines and has a range of ten minutes. The French government has invested 1.5 million euros to study its military application.

On the table you can see Franky Zapata, jet ski champion and collaborator of the French army. As it appeared this military prototype was a direct request from Macron himself, of which he has boasted himself on social networks. "Proud of our army, modern and innovative," wrote the president, who shared a video of the flying soldier.

The parade commemorating the taking of the Bastille in 1789 took place on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris and aimed to promote the so-called European Initiative for Intervention (IEI), launched in 2018 and with which the French president wishes to promote a common defensive culture to react militarily urgently.

German, British, Belgian, Danish, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, Dutch and Portuguese forces, as well as the other countries that supported the initiative also participated in the conference.