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SOFINS 2025 is Now Underway in France

The new Arquus VLFS 'Pegase' at SOFINS 2025 [© Bob Morrison]

SOFINS 2025, the French Special Operations Forces Innovation Network Seminar, is now underway at Camp de Souge near Bordeaux, reports Bob Morrison.

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This morning, Tuesday 1st April, I was up and out with the sparrows to attend SOFINS, which is held every two years on the French Army Special Forces base near Bordeaux.

Inside the main temporary expo hall at SOFINS 2025 [© Bob Morrison]

SOFINS 2025 Day One, held under a cloudless sky, vanished almost in the blink of an eye as I scouted for future news stories. It looks like it will be a week of 20-hour days for me, so please forgive me if it takes me a little while to research and write up several fresh topics; including previously unseen vehicles, boots, emergency rations and camouflage etc. But here’s a few images to possibly whet your appetite. Normal service should resume over the weekend.

[images © Bob Morrison]

A team of Polish Special Forces from JWK dropped into SOFINS 2025 [© Bob Morrison]
The French MoD has just bought this third generation mountain boot from LOWA [© Bob Morrison]
Thales launched the PANORAMIC Quad-Tube NVG at SOFINS 2025 [© Bob Morrison]

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