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What armor to ensure the interim of Leclerc if the MGCS program were to be postponed?

3th June 20233th June 2023

These last days have probably been the most difficult concerning the Main Ground Combat System, or MGCS, program, initially intended to replace the Leclerc and Leopard 2 from 2035. Indeed, one after the other, several announcements have been made across the Rhine, leaving assume that this deadline would no longer be met. Thus, according to the Bundeswehr, the industrial obstacles facing the program today would now prohibit entry into service in 2035. A few days earlier Suzanne Weigand, the CEO of RENK, which designs and manufactures the very critical transmissions of French tanks and Germans, said in an interview that this same deadline…

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Is Ukraine assembling a breakthrough brigade for its upcoming offensive?

31th May 20233th June 2023

For several weeks now, many Western commentators have been waiting for the launch of the famous Ukrainian spring counter-offensive against the Russian system. However, this tends to be delayed. And the Janes analysis and information service may have pinpointed the reasons for this delay. Indeed, in a brief, the site announced that it had obtained certain information on this subject during the International Defense and Security Technology Fair (IDET) 2023, which took place a few days ago in Brno, in the Republic Czech. According to this information, the Ukrainian General Staff would wait for the 50 combat vehicles…

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The BND, the German intelligence services, believes that Russia can continue the war for a long time

30th May 20233th June 2023

The outbreak of the Russian offensive took many intelligence services in Europe by surprise, including in France. The latter, having weakened its intelligence system in Russia to focus on the terrorist threat, could therefore only rely on technological intelligence to form an opinion. It is true that, for many specialists on the subject before February 24, while a Russian offensive against Ukraine was probably doomed to success, it would generate such heavy losses and a determined international reaction that very few would venture to think that Vladimir Putin could make such a mistake…

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

26th May 202330th May 2023

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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US military logistics to Europe are 30% more efficient today than at the start of the war in Ukraine

25th May 202330th May 2023

Between 1969 and the beginning of the 90s, NATO conducted almost every year in the fall or at the beginning of winter, a large exercise called Reforger. This was intended to simulate the massive deployment of American forces in Europe to deal with a hypothetical Warsaw Pact offensive. At the height of tensions, in 1983 during the Euromissile crisis, Reforger thus mobilized no less than 125.000 American soldiers who were deployed in Europe to supply the IIIrd, Vth and VIIth Corps of the US Army participating in the defense of the Europe. At that time, the Pentagon's logisticians had acquired know-how and…

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Poland wants to exclude defense investments from the public deficit count in the European Union

24th May 202324th May 2023

On July 11 and 12, the next NATO summit will be held in Vilnius, Lithuania, which will, unsurprisingly, be largely devoted to Alliance members' support for Ukraine, as well as to the modernization and strengthening of the defensive posture against the Russian threat. If, at previous summits, the United States and the countries of Western Europe had above all a voice in the chapter, the Eastern Europeans, today, are in a position of strength, in particular because of their role key in the direct control of Russia, but also by the support they have provided so far to Ukraine. Among…

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For the Baltic countries, the threat remains intense despite the heavy losses suffered by the Russian armies in Ukraine

23th May 202326th May 2023

Prior to the Russian intervention in Ukraine, very few in Western Europe were ready to give credence to the concerns expressed for several years by the states bordering Russia or Belarus, and in particular the Baltic States. At that time, most Western European countries considered that these warnings from Tallin, Vilnius, Riga or Warsaw were excessive, and responded above all to a feeling stemming from the collective memory of public opinion. public in those countries that have known the Soviet Union or the Warsaw Pact. From February 24, 2022, the tone has, naturally, radically…

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50% of Russian military deaths in Ukraine are the result of poor first aid training

19th May 202323th May 2023

It is rare today that the Russian press organs venture to publish testimonies pointing to dysfunctions within the armies, and in particular when it concerns the special military operation in Ukraine, as officially designated. It is true that criticism of either is now punishable by 15 years in prison, and the Russian courts seem rather inclined to strictly apply the Duma's new laws in this area. This was however the case in an article published by the Ria Novostii site on April 27, in this case an interview with the head of the Kalashnikov tactical medicine training center…

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Will Russian scientists be the scapegoats for the failures of the military special operation in Ukraine?

18th May 202322th May 2023

There have been many surprises since February 24, 2022 and the start of the Russian military special operation against Ukraine. One of the most significant, and yet one of the least commented on, is none other than the very low number of arrests within the Russian general staff and intelligence services. Moreover, Defense Minister Sergei Choigou, Chief of Staff Valeri Gerasimov and FSB Chief Alexander Bortnikov all remain in office, while such failures would have been sanctioned at least by forced resignation in all countries, including in our own democracies. If a few second rank soldiers, a few...

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After the tanks, towards a new European cacophony about fighter jets for Ukraine

17th May 202319th May 2023

The delivery of fighter jets was one of the challenges of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's last European tour. And in fact, the subject has been discussed with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as well as French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. If the latter two have already announced that they are ready to train Ukrainian crews to fly NATO aircraft, neither France nor Great Britain, any more than Germany, have F planes. -16, the latter seeming however to have the favors of Kyiv and especially of NATO to support Ukraine. If France seems...

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