Category: air combat

FA-50, ATR-72MP, UH-60, Anca ..: Malaysian Air Force modernizes at LIMA show

Like most countries in the Pacific theater, Malaysia, a country of 33 million inhabitants and 330.000 km, had not, until recently, equipped its air forces a priority. After the withdrawal of the MIG-29 and F-5 in service for several decades, the Malaysian air force can now only rely on a small fleet made up of 8 F/A-18 D Hornets acquired in 2008, and than 18 Su-30MKM negotiated from Moscow a few years earlier. If these devices are still relatively modern and efficient, it was however essential, for Kuala Lumpur, to strengthen the format, and…

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United Arab Emirates cancels order for 12 French H225M Caracal helicopters

In December 2021, Abu Dhabi announced the order for 12 H225M Caracal maneuver helicopters from Airbus Helicopters on the sidelines of the historic order for 80 Rafale combat aircraft for the modernization of its air forces and the replacement of its Mirage 2000-9. Worth €800 million, the contract enabled the Marignane industrial site to fill an order book that lacked depth in this period marked by the significant drop in orders for aircraft dedicated to off-shore missions, favorite of the Super Puma. Unfortunately, it seems that Airbus Helicopter failed to convince its Middle Eastern customers, since according to Muammar Abdulla…

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Airbus' super-speedy Racer helicopter demonstrator should (really) fly this year

Twice, on March 7 and 15, 2022, several transport and attack helicopters of the Russian forces in forward deployment at Kherson International Airport were victims of Ukrainian attacks which destroyed or seriously damaged at least fifteen aircraft with an artillery strike and a special forces attack. In accordance with Russian doctrine, the aircraft had indeed been deployed as close as possible to the engagement zone, so as to reduce transit times and reaction times to support the forces. Unfortunately for the Russian general staff, the Ukrainians were able to take advantage of this weakness to carry out one of the first brilliant actions...

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Is there a pilot for the French defense industrial strategy?

With the return of war in Europe and the rapid deterioration of tensions between major military powers in Asia and the Middle East, the French defense industry found itself, in a few months, a major center of interest both for media than for a number of political personalities who seem to discover the state of disrepair of the stocks of ammunition and spare parts of the armies, or the manufacturing delays of certain equipment such as the Caesar cannon. Not a week now goes by without an announcement concerning the defense industry, the armies or the next military programming law, as well as the comments that…

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Like submarines, have the Tiger and NH90 helicopters been the subject of an unwarranted smear campaign in Australia?

Ahead of the dramatic announcement of the cancellation of the Shortfin Barracuda Attack-class submarine program designed by Naval Group for the Royal Australian Navy, in order to replace them with US-British nuclear-powered attack submarines within the framework of the constitution of the new alliance AUKUS, the program like Naval Group had been the object of an intense campaign of denigration as much in the press as in the armies and in the Australian parliament. As we had done then failed, the criticisms then repeated in a loop by the tabloids and even in the classic press, moreover widely taken up without contradiction by…

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Japan wants to replace its attack and reconnaissance helicopters with drones

A year after the start of the conflict, the lessons of the war in Ukraine, the first very high-intensity war employing the entire modern conventional panoply for many decades, are beginning to influence the military planning of the major world powers. This is how the heavy tank, until recently considered by many as a legacy of the past now too vulnerable to new missiles and prowling ammunition, is now at the heart of the capability concerns of many armies in Europe and beyond. . Even in France, this influence is noticeably felt on the next Military Programming Law, which must in particular give back to…

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India will increase its defense budget by 13% in 2023-2024

If the Russian aggression against Ukraine has provoked the announcement of numerous increases in the defense budgets of European countries, other theaters in the world are also the subject of intense tensions, leading governments to significantly increase their respective defense efforts. This is the case in the Western Pacific, while South Korea, Japan and Taiwan are engaged in a dynamic aimed at massively increasing their defense investments over the long term to control the threat posed by conventional and strategies of the Chinese and North Korean armies. This is also the case of India, which must simultaneously keep power under control…

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Should France buy the Australian Tiger and NH90 Taïpan helicopters?

The Australian armed forces are today deploying 22 Tiger ARH combat helicopters derived from the HAD standard of the French Light Aviation Army (ALAT), as well as 41 NH-90 MRH maneuver helicopters designated in the country. under the name Taipan. Significant availability problems led the Australian General Staff to announce, just two years ago, the acquisition of 2 AH-29E Guardian combat helicopters to replace its Tigers from 64, as well as its intention to replace its Taipans, which also suffered from poor organization of the supply chain, leading to major problems of availability and costs. It is…

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The US Army chooses the Bell V-280 Valor with tiltrotors to replace its Black Hawks

Increasing the tactical transport capacity by 50%, while going twice as fast and twice as far as a UH-60 Black-Hawk helicopter, such is the more than ambitious specification of the Futur Long Range Assault Aircraft program. , or FLRAA, one of the pillars of the Futur Vertical Lift program aimed at replacing, from the second half of the current decade, no less than 4000 rotary wings in service within the US Army, ranging from the OH-58 Kiowa reconnaissance (withdrawn from service in 2014) to the CH-47 Chinook heavy helicopter, through the AH-64 Apache attack helicopter and the UH-60 Black maneuver helicopter…

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Despite the special investment fund, the German armies continue to weaken

Just days after the start of the Russian offensive against Ukraine, and a heartfelt Linkedin post from the Bundeswehr Chief of Staff, General Alfons Mais, about the state of disrepair of the German armies , the new German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz, surprised his entire audience, in the Bundestag and everywhere in Europe, by announcing a plan aimed at remobilizing and rebuilding the military capabilities of the German armies to become the first conventional army in Europe, by bringing the defense budget quickly beyond 2% of GDP, i.e. more than €75 billion, and by creating a Special Investment Fund endowed with…

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