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“You’re at the gate, about to cross the enemy line. Drop to below 500 feet,” one of two French Air Force instructors says. Immediately a 3D rendering of the fields, forests and villages of the French countryside on multiple screens in front of them becomes sharper. Just under fifteen minutes later, they give the command to the Ukrainian soldier in a fighter jet simulator in the adjacent room to hit release and bomb his target. His mission, plotted earlier in the morning using various maps, satellite images, weather forecasts and made-up data of where enemy equipment was supposedly last seen, w…

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