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19 juillet 2022

SCAF or not, the Super-Rafale Neuron couple proposed by Dassault should be developed

As is customary at the start of summer, arms fairs have multiplied in recent weeks, with Eurosatory in France dedicated to land armaments in mid-June, the ILA aeronautical fair in Berlin a week later, and this week, the British Farnborough Airshow. This...

18 juillet 2022

Swedish membership in NATO opens great opportunities for cooperation with France in combat aircraft

Swedish neutrality, stemming from an international position dating back to 1814, was one of the pillars of the country's international policy during the 19th and 20th centuries, allowing Stockholm to preserve peace on its territory for...

12 juillet 2022

Why the Russian Belgorod submarine and the 2M39 Poseidon nuclear torpedo do not change anything?

On the occasion of the campaign for the Russian presidential election of 2018, outgoing President Vladimir Putin aroused a certain astonishment in the West by publicly presenting certain "revolutionary" military programs, supposed to give a decisive advantage to the Russian armies...

20 juin 2022

The 4 major advances of the new Chinese aircraft carrier CV-18 Fujian

As expected, the new Chinese aircraft carrier, dubbed CV-18 Fujian, was launched on Friday in Shanghai, marking a new stage in the industrial and operational evolution of the People's Liberation Army Navy. Beyond the indisputable success...

2 juin 2022

To meet the Chinese challenge, the US Air Force wants to bet massively on combat drones

During the Cold War, the armies of NATO, in particular the American armies, undertook to contain the numerical superiority on the ground of the Soviet forces and the Warsaw Pact, by acquiring unparalleled air power, capable of...

25 mai 2022

Why is a defense effort of 2% of GDP insufficient for France?

Upon his arrival at the Elysée Palace in 2017, the new President Emmanuel Macron made a major effort to bring France's defense effort to 2% of its Gross Domestic Product, as France had been there. .

20 mai 2022

Simulations show that drone swarms would be a solution to defend Taiwan

If support for Ukraine is at the heart of the strategic concerns of the American executive, it is the defense of Taiwan which, for several years, has given nightmares to the strategists and planners of the American armed forces. In fact, most...

2 août 2022

12 aircraft carriers, 150 destroyers and frigates, 66 SNA ..: the new plan of the US Navy finally meets the Chinese challenge

As we have already discussed several times, the US Navy's capability planning has been chaotic to say the least over the past 20 years, between reckless spending on certain poorly calibrated programs such as the Zumwalt destroyers and the LCS corvettes, and trade-offs contradictions from...

1 août 2022

New Japanese Defense White Paper names China and Russia as major threats

"If it goes without saying, it will still...

29 juillet 2022

Taiwan: When and how will China go on the offensive?

For several years, tensions between Washington and...

28 juillet 2022

Was the probable failure of SCAF planned by Berlin for a long time?

Whether industrial, military or even...

20 juillet 2022

Should we put an end to “5th generation” combat aircraft?

When Lockheed-Martin presented its F-22 Raptor for the first time, it was presented as a “5th generation” aircraft, to mark its disruptive character both operationally and technologically, with previous combat aircraft. Beyond its unit price of $160 million...

26 janvier 2022