Lyon – Mont Verdun Air Base (''Base Aérienne 942'') is located to the northwest of

Lyon Lyon (Franco-Provençal: ''Liyon'') is a city in France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of the French Alps, southeast of Paris, north of Marseille, southwest of Geneva, Switzerland, north ...

. It is a center for air defense operations transferred to the site from the now-deactivated headquarters of the

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at Taverny Air Base – BA921 near Paris, with an underground alternate strategic command center hardened against chemical and nuclear attack. 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

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(ACCS).

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