Category: OSINT

Germany puts an option on 123 Leopard 2A8 tanks for €3 billion beyond the 18 units ordered

It will have taken time, but the €100 billion envelope announced by Olaf Scholz in February 2022 to modernize and rebuild the German armies is beginning to produce its effects. A few days ago, the Bundeswehr thus announced the order of 50 modernized Puma infantry fighting vehicles to complete its inventory and replace the Marders still in service. The order for 60 CH-47F Chinook heavy helicopters from Boeing also appears to have been authorized by the US State Department for the transaction for $8,5 billion. In the field of combat tanks, Berlin had already announced its intention to order 18 Leopard 2 tanks from…

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Russian R-37M long-range air-to-air missile combined with Su-35s more effective than expected in Ukraine

Developed in the 80s on the basis of the R-33 (AA-9 Amos) heavy missile, the R-37 (AA-13 Axehead) was designed to give devices that did not have the very powerful radar of the MIG-31, the ability to engage air targets at long range. For this, the semi-active radar seeker of the R-33 was replaced by an active radar seeker coupled with inertial navigation as for the American AIM-54 Phoenix missile equipping the US Navy's F-14 Tomcat, this which was to make it possible to equip the missile with a range of 200 km on board air superiority fighters such as the Su-27 or the Su-30. However, economic difficulties...

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According to some photos, a Ukrainian Patriot battery intercepted a 'hypersonic' Kinzhal missile

Since the official announcement in March 2018 of its entry into service, the Russian Kinzhal airborne missile was presented, and often recognized, as a hypersonic munition whose speed and ability to maneuver put it beyond the reach of existing anti-missile systems. This argument has often been put forward, particularly in the West, to justify certain political positions. But this aura of invincibility could well have been breached on the night of May 4th. Indeed, according to photos published by the Ukrainian site defence–ua.com, one of these missiles was intercepted by one of the new Patriot batteries delivered to Kyiv to reinforce…

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The Chinese Communist Party regains control of Space, Artificial Intelligence and Quantum to meet the American challenge

This has been repeated enough by the country's authorities, China firmly intends to become, by 2049 and the centenary of the creation of the People's Republic of China, the first world power from an economic, technological and military point of view. This key objective for the Chinese Communist Party will demonstrate to the world that the announced victory of the Western democratic and liberal system against the Soviet Union at the end of the 80s had a short-term and not a structural dimension, as has often been interpreted since then. Be that as it may, to achieve this, Beijing is steering its industrial and economic development with an iron fist…

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The American right in Congress wants to favor the Pacific theater against China in support of Ukraine

For the vast majority of Europeans, but also of their rulers, the support of the United States and its armies in the face of the threat posed by Russia is assured and indisputable. The Finnish and Swedish eagerness to join NATO after the Russian offensive in Ukraine is the perfect illustration of this, as is the success of US armaments in Europe, largely justified by the desire for greater interoperability. with the US armies. And it is clear that American support for Ukraine since the beginning of the conflict, whether in terms of aid in arms or civilian equipment, but also in terms of…

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The US Armies are vulnerable on the electromagnetic spectrum according to the US Air Force

In 2014, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Alan Shaffer, one of the most respected personalities at the Pentagon, sounded the alarm about the capabilities of American forces in terms of electronic warfare. According to him, the United States had nothing less than “lost control of the electromagnetic spectrum”, in the face of the progress made by its competitors such as Russia or China. He also added that the situation will deteriorate as all of the operational capabilities of the American armed forces will increasingly rely on an intense use of this spectrum, so that the stakes are critical for…

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Will France engage in the development of a long-range artillery system?

If there is one piece of equipment that has demonstrated its usefulness on the Ukrainian battlefields, it is undoubtedly long-range artillery, and more specifically rocket-launching systems such as the famous American HIMARS but also the Grad, Smerch and other Tornado S and G employed by the two belligerents. Able to strike in short time in the depth of the opponent's device, these ammunition are both precise, fast and difficult to intercept by the anti-aircraft defense. In addition, being able to be implemented, for the most advanced among them, relatively far from the line of engagement, they suffer from relatively low attrition...

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Russian nuclear cruiser Pyotr Veliky expected to leave service by 2030

After the loss of the Moskva, and pending the return to active service of the Kirov-class nuclear cruiser Admiral Nakhimov after a deep modernization, the Russian Navy's cruiser fleet is limited to 3 ships: the cruisers Marshal Ustinov and Varyag of the Slava class, sister-ships of the Moskva, and the nuclear cruiser Pyotr Veliky, an improved version of the Kirov class. Entering service in 1998, the Veliky is today the most powerful combat surface unit in service within the Russian Navy and as such, assumes the role of flagship of the powerful fleet…

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The US Navy wants to produce 4 Constellation frigates each year thanks to a second shipyard

With nearly 83 destroyers and cruisers, the US Navy today has the most formidable naval capacity in terms of anti-aircraft and anti-ballistic defense, as well as in the field of firepower towards the land, all these ships being both equipped with the AEGIS anti-aircraft and anti-missile system and Tomahawk cruise missiles. On the other hand, it suffers, since the withdrawal of the OH Perry frigates, from a major weakness in the field of anti-submarine escort. Indeed, if the Arleigh Burke destroyers do indeed have an AN/SQS-53 hull sonar, a towed sonar and two SeaHawk anti-submarine warfare helicopters, their displacement and…

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Japan wants to rely on US technologies to accelerate its Rail Gun program

In 2021, after a decade of investment and testing, the US Navy announced that it was ending the program to develop an electric cannon, or Rail Gun. Developed by BAe system, it aimed to develop a gun using electromagnetic energy to propel a shell and thus reach a muzzle exit speed of up to Mach 10, where powder-propelled shells struggle to exceed Mach 4 due to the speed of propagation of the deflagration. Theoretically, the US Navy's Rail Gun was intended to reach targets up to 220 miles, more than 340 km, and at the same time offer…

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