Major General (Retd) Patrick Brethous

Special Military Adviser Airbus Helicopters

Has been nominated as off 1st december 2020 AIRBUS HELICOPTERS CEO military adviser for French military affairs. Combat helicopter pilot in the army aviation (ALAT), he left the armed forces at the rank of major general after a 38 years carrier mostly dedicated to military operations, from tactical to strategic level. He has been committed in almost all the operations of these last decades, from the 1st Gulf war (1990), Somalia (1993), Yougoslavia (1994, 1997), DR Congo (2006) and the Saharian strip, as general commander of the French operation “BARKHANE” (2015-2016).