Category: Naval drones

After Russia, North Korea is surfing on the fantasy of the nuclear torpedo capable of creating a Tsunami

On March 1, 2018, during a televised address as part of the presidential election campaign, President Vladimir Putin publicly announced the upcoming arrival, within the Russian armed forces, of 6 new weapons that will bring the world, and Westerners in particular, to “listen to Russia again,” in his words. Beyond the hypersonic weapons Kinzhal and Avangard as well as the new ICBM Sarmat, all now well known, the Russian president presented a "nuclear-powered" cruise missile, the 9M730 Burevestnik, an anti-aircraft and laser space defense system designated Peresvet , as well as a weapon that, since its presentation, arouses many…

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These 7 technologies that will transform warfare by 2030

Since the start of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, many analyses, including on this site, have focused on the different lessons that these very high intensity combats have brought to light, such as the now indisputable role of the tank but also artillery, coastal or anti-aircraft defenses, and of course drones, to speak only of the technological question. And in fact, many armies have evolved their military planning in recent months precisely to respond to these lessons. This is how Poland embarked on an unprecedented effort to reconstitute a very powerful land force aligning 6 divisions,…

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Faced with the hardening of the threat, the Pentagon is changing its doctrine concerning autonomous systems

One of the main axes chosen by the Pentagon to maintain the operational ascendancy over potential adversaries who jointly have significant military and technological means, is based on the use of a large number of autonomous systems, whether or not they are controlled by one or more artificial intelligences. But faced with the challenge represented by the rise of China, its industries and its 1,4 billion inhabitants, the doctrine defined in 2012 concerning the use of autonomous systems no longer seems appropriate. This is why a revision of it has been undertaken since 2021 to take into account technological developments such as those of the threat. The…

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How will the 5 low-lethal strategic threats upset the global military balance?

The concept of strategic strike emerged during the Second World War, first through the German Blitz against British cities which took place between the end of the Battle of Britain itself, in September 1940, and May 1941 when the Luftwaffe was redirected to the East in anticipation of Plan Barbarossa. It was a question, for the German strategists and in particular for Herman Goehring commander of the Luftwaffe, of destroying the will of resistance of the British themselves, by striking not only military targets like bases and factories, but also the big cities of the countries, such as London, but also Coventry, Plymouth, Birmingham and Liverpool.…

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The Top 5 of the most efficient armaments in Ukraine

Since the beginning of the Russian aggression on February 24, Ukraine has become, reluctantly, the largest platform for experimentation with Russian, Ukrainian and Western weapon systems, after 30 years of conflict. latent and asymmetrical that did not allow objective comparative analyses. Among these systems, some have demonstrated their effectiveness, to the point of becoming famous, including among the general public. But what are the 5 weapon systems that have distinguished themselves the most since the beginning of this conflict, to the point of changing certain concepts that have long been elevated to the rank of dogma in Western and global armies? 5…

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South Korean Navy takes on expanded strategic role in face of evolving North Korean nuclear threat

Until the end of the 2010s, the threat posed by North Korea's strategic systems was essentially made up of nuclear-capable surface-to-surface ballistic missiles, with short-range systems from the SCUD family, then, from the start of the 2000s, the appearance of purely national systems, such as the medium-range ballistic missile Hwasong-7 or Nodong-1. From the second half of the 2010s, new high-performance indigenous systems were tested by Pyongyang, whether ballistic missiles with a semi-ballistic trajectory like the KN-17, intercontinental missiles like the Hwasong- 14, and even ballistic missiles at…

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The US armies are preparing their evolution towards drone warfare before 2030

The use of military drones is not a recent subject. Already, during the Second World War, attempts were made to transform certain fighter and bomber aircraft, as well as to use remote-controlled systems to conduct short-range reconnaissance. During the Vietnam War, American forces frequently employed drones to carry out certain risky reconnaissance missions, or to bring the North Vietnamese anti-aircraft defenses to light. But the first army that made intensive and coordinated use of drones in combat was the Israeli Air Force which, in 1982 during Operation Peace in Galilee, intensively employed drones to…

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LPM 2023: 5 technological Quickwins to strengthen the French Armies in the face of High Intensity

We come to the conclusion of this series of articles devoted to the issues, risks and opportunities that frame the design of the next Military Programming Law. In recent days, through the voice of the Minister of the Armed Forces Sebastien Lecornu, certain tracks have been revealed as to the priority objectives of this LPM, such as the doubling of the operational reserve (Hypothesis 1 of the article "The" Army at the crossroads paths”), and like the reorganization of the industrial effort in order to reinforce the strategic autonomy of the country. It is obvious that the greatest unknown, to date, remains the organization, the financing and the scale of this effort, subjects which…

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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 on the part of the White House and Congress. The challenge was therefore considerable for Admiral Gilday, the Chief of Naval Operations, to restore order to this planning, while putting the American executive and legislative branches in the same direction, in order to take up what seems good represent the greatest challenge to U.S. naval power in…

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China has just completed the first operational test campaign of its trimaran stealth naval drone

The Chinese authorities have announced that they have successfully conducted the first sea trial campaign for a trimaran surface naval drone demonstrator on June 7, 2022, after a 3-hour autonomous operational mission at sea, which made it possible to collect lots of data. In September 2020, a photo published on social networks caused a sensation by showing a prototype of a Chinese surface drone on the Yantze River, in a configuration in all respects comparable to that of the Sea Hunter surface drone of the US Navy. In these dimensions as in its tonnage, the Chinese ship indeed seemed directly inspired…

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