Category: Fighters aircrafts

Is the F-35 a budget time bomb for European armies?

In recent years, and with a few exceptions, the American Lockheed-Martin's F-35 combat aircraft has established itself with most European air forces as part of their modernization. Stealth, connected and equipped with high-powered sensors, the Lightning II has convinced, to date, no less than 10 European air forces (Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and Switzerland), while 4 others have announced their intention to do so (Greece, Spain, Czech Republic and Romania), making the device a de facto standard for European hunting. It must be said that the device does not lack an argument to convince. Belonging…

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These technologies which will be able to detect an F35 from 2030

Since the use of the F117 during the first Gulf War in 1991, stealth has been considered the essential characteristic of a combat aircraft, to be able to face the modern anti-aircraft defenses of a determined adversary. . And Lieutenant Colonel Zelko's aircraft shot down by a battery of S-175 missiles (SA-3 in the NATO classification), when it had just opened its ammunition hatch on March 27, 1999 over Serbia did not didn't change much. Stealth had become the holy grail of aircraft manufacturers and the staffs of the world's air forces. From then on, several programs based on this characteristic were developed in…

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Why would opening up the FCAS program to other European partners bring as many constraints as opportunities?

Gathered in Madrid on April 28, the German defense ministers Boris Pistorius, Spanish Margarita Robles and French Sebastien Lecornu, formalized the launch of phase 1B of the Future Air Combat System program, or SCAF. This signature follows the industrial agreement ratified a few months ago by Dassault Aviation, Airbus DS and Indra, which made it possible to get out of the rut in which the program had been stuck for almost a year, around the piloting of its first pillar aimed at developing the Next Generation Fighter, or NGF, at the heart of the program. Beyond phase 1B which…

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Sweden will train Ukrainian pilots on JAS-39 Gripen and would consider exporting the aircraft to Kyiv

In recent days, announcements follow one another around the constitution of the new Ukrainian westernized hunting fleet. Several European countries, including the Netherlands and Denmark, have already announced that they will supply F16 fighter jets to the Ukrainian air force, while Copenhagen and Amsterdam have been responsible for coordinating the training of pilots and technical maintenance personnel to implement these devices by the fall. If, by its wide distribution in Europe, and its American origin, the F-16 has naturally been designated as the most suitable platform for the Ukrainian air forces, especially since several air forces...

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Taiwan looking for options regarding the future of its Mirage 2000 fleet

Like many other air forces using the device, such as Greece or India, the Mirage 2000 is a device particularly appreciated by Taiwanese pilots, and popular with public opinion in the country. Fast, highly maneuverable and equipped with high-performance Magic 2 and MICA air-to-air missiles, the 48 single-seater Mirage 2000-5Ei and 12 two-seater Mirage 2000-5Di acquired in 1992 and delivered between 1997 and 1998 have since largely contributed to to contain the incursions of the Su-27, and later of the J-11, J-10 and other J-16 of the People's Liberation Army beyond the line separating the strait...

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A second French NG nuclear aircraft carrier: Why do it? And for how much?

It was with an enthusiastic tweet that the Renaissance deputy for the second constituency of Finistère, Jean-Charles Larsonneur, announced yesterday evening the adoption by a cross-party majority of an amendment to the Military Programming Law 2024-2030, for that an in-depth study be carried out during the LPM, on the subject of the construction and implementation of a second new generation nuclear aircraft carrier, or PANG, while the first unit which is to replace the PAN Charles de Gaulle in 2038 Beyond the fact that Parliament has played a much more visible and welcome role in the design of this LPM than in previous ones, the announcement…

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Egypt would like to acquire a dozen Chinese J-10C fighters

After breaking with the Soviet Union in the 70s, the Egyptian air force, then massively equipped with Russian fighters, found itself in a complex situation, awaiting the delivery of the first American F-16s. This is how Cairo turned, in the early 80s, to the Chinese J-7 fighter, an unlicensed copy of the MIG-21 massively used until now by its Air Force. Thus, between 1981 and 1983, nearly 90 J-7s were delivered to Egypt by Beijing, which made it possible to anticipate the withdrawal of the MIG-21s before the first American F-16s were delivered the following year. In fact, if during the…

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European Strategic Autonomy: Why can Poland succeed where France failed?

In a previous article, we discussed the new status of Poland on the European scene, whether within NATO or the European Union, through the ambitions displayed by its Minister of Defense Mariusz Błaszczak concerning the next summit of NATO in Vilnius next July. Paradoxically, after having long led people to believe that Polish policy aimed above all to obtain the backing and protection of the United States, recent developments in the strategy pursued by Warsaw show a real ambition to induce Europeans to fully assume their defence, while at least from a conventional point of view, especially in the face of…

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Swedish Gripen E/F finds second breath in Thailand after Washington's refusal to deliver F-35s

In January 2022, the Chief of Staff of the Thai Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Napadej Dhupatemiya, had declared in an interview given to the Bangkok Post, that he favored the acquisition of 7 F-35As over that of as many Saab Gripen E/Fs to replace some of the F-5s and F-16s currently in service, as part of the modernization of the Thai air force. For the general officer, the F-35A was more economical and more efficient than the Swedish aircraft, while Thailand is already implementing a squadron of Gripen C / D, the most modern aircraft in its fleet. However, at the time already, the declarations of the Air Chief Marshal Napadej Dhupatemiya,…

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The US Air Force does not want to reproduce the mistakes of the F-35 program with the NGAD program

In an interview given to CBS news, the former chief negotiator of the Pentagon's weapons programs and former vice-president of Raytheon, Shay Assad, draws a vitriolic observation of the invoicing practices applied by the giants of the American defence. According to him, following the industrial reorganization of 1993 which made it possible to merge the fifty major companies of the American Industrial and Technological Base of Defense or BITD, into 5 large groups which today turn out to be the 5 largest world companies in this field (in the order Lockheed-Martin, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics), the Pentagon has created a situation of…

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