Day: December 15, 2020

Is France sacrificing part of its Defense Industry on the altar of cooperation with Germany?

It's official, the KNDS company, which brings together the French Nexter and the German Krauss-Maffei Wegman, and which was until now piloted by a two-headed structure made up of the CEO of Nexter Stephan Mayer and his counterpart from KMW, will see its structure evolve, and will now be steered by a 9-person board of directors chaired by Philippe Petitcolin, the CEO of the French engine manufacturer Safran, while the company will pass under the direction of Frank Haun, hitherto boss of KMW, who will be replaced in this position by the vice-president of the company, Ralf Ketzel, while for his part, Stéphane Mayer will leave Nexter, without his successor having been named so far.…

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Can Turkish Industry take over from US sanctions?

While the US State Department, under pressure from Congress, has just implemented a first set of sanctions against Ankara regarding the acquisition of S-400 systems from Moscow, Turkish communications are multiplying to demonstrate that the country is able to bypass these sanctions, and quickly develop and implement its own alternative solutions. Latest announcement, barely a few hours after the American announcement, the state company Tusas Engine Industries announced that it had delivered for test a new turbine for helicopter designated TS1400, and intended to replace the LHTEC CTS8000 turbines on the helicopter program. domestic medium…

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Russia orders 6 new corvettes for the Pacific fleet

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced, via the TASS agency, a new order for corvettes of the 20380 family, in order to strengthen and modernize the Pacific fleet between 2024 and 2028. Two of these ships will be Steregushchiy class corvettes of project 20380, while the 4 others will be of the Gremyashchiy class of project 20385, in both cases ships with significant firepower, and able to significantly strengthen Russian naval capabilities on its Pacific coast. The Steregushchiy class corvettes, 6 of which are already in service with the Baltic fleets and…

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