Category: Iran-Saudi Arabia-Israel tensions

Iran claims it has developed a hypersonic ballistic missile capable of outmaneuvering 'all existing defences'

As we know, Iran has made immense proven progress in recent years in the field of conventional strategic capabilities, whether long-range drones such as the Shahed 136 drone with a range of more than 2000 km used to harass Ukrainian defenses for several months by Russia, cruise missiles but also ballistic missiles. The attacks carried out against the military airfields of Idlib and Al Assad in 2020, but also the strikes against Saudi oil installations in 2019, attest to the effectiveness and precision of these systems. A few days ago, Tehran proceeded, as such,…

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The French Navy calls on European fleets to fill the spaces left by the United States

As we know, the Chinese shipyards launch, each year, nearly a dozen destroyers and frigates, as well as many other ships, including the most imposing and modern, intended to come and swell the fleet of the People's Liberation Army. . To deal with it, the US Navy can still rely on the mass and efficiency that its fleet gives it, as well as on the renewed means of its regional allies such as Australia, Japan or South Korea. However, in the years to come, and despite the increase in US naval production, Washington will have to concentrate more and more of its resources in…

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Iran tests new medium-range ballistic missile in response to Israeli strike threats

Two days ago, in reaction to the recent revelations concerning the construction of a new nuclear site by Tehran, the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant, made a new reference, in an indirect way, to possible Israeli preventive strikes against the Iran and its nuclear capabilities, against the backdrop of the failure of international negotiations to induce Tehran to abandon uranium enrichment beyond the country's civilian needs. For several years now, the Israeli air force, the Kheil HaAvir, has been training to carry out long-distance raids, and thus be able to strike, by means of drones and fighter planes, the sites …

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Iran would build a new nuclear site beyond the reach of the best conventional Western bombs

The development of Iran's nuclear program is a matter of great concern on the international scene, particularly for the neighbors of the Islamic Republic, but also for Western countries that depend on energy supplies from the Middle East, as well as for Israel, which has long been designated by Tehran as the country's major adversary. In recent years, the warning messages have continued to follow, while Iran has purified quantities of uranium in its centrifuges well beyond the limits authorized by the International Atomic Energy Agency, 10 times more even, according to the organization. Iran itself contributes to this concern, by announcing that it has reached…

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Why turning to Israeli armaments represents a double-edged decision for European countries?

In recent years, the Israeli defense industry has grown very rapidly on the international scene, and the year 2022 saw Elbit, Rafael and other IMIs record a growth of more than 30% in export sales. to reach a production volume of almost $12 billion, almost 5 times higher than it was just 10 years ago. It is true that Israeli equipment has something to seduce, offering sometimes impressive performance such as the SPIKE-ER anti-tank missile capable of reaching targets over 50 km away or the Iron Dome anti-aircraft protection system, formidable innovations...

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What are the 3 major dangers linked to European American-centrism in terms of Defense?

For many years, long before President Macron's arrival at the Elysée Palace, the French position on defense had always been more independent than that of its neighbors vis-à-vis American protection. In 2017, when tensions between Berlin and Washington were at their peak, Emmanuel Macron and Engels Merkel launched several industrial and political initiatives to give substance to a very ambitious and quite old project, Defense Europe. However, as relations between Germany and the United States normalized from the following year, the Franco-German cooperation programs gradually withered, largely from…

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F-35A, Su-75, FC-31..: which fighter will replace the F-16 of the United Arab Emirates?

In September 2020, against the backdrop of a historic agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, US President Donald Trump announced the acquisition by Abu Dhabi of Reaper drones, but also of EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft and above all of 50 next-generation F-35A fighters, a first in the Middle East. Despite the colossal amount of $23 billion represented by this order, Congress was more than circumspect about it. And despite the efforts of President Trump who, until the last day of his mandate, tried to force the hand of US parliamentarians to endorse the order, it was immediately suspended by Joe Biden barely...

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After Europe and Japan, the United States will strengthen its forces in South Korea

Since the beginning of the Russian assault on Ukraine, the United States has deployed more than 20.000 additional soldiers in Europe, to reach a total of 100.000 men and women of the 4 US armies present on European soil. At the same time, the American military presence in Japan has been significantly hardened, with the deployment of new anti-aircraft and detection systems, as well as new combat devices, while tensions with Beijing, particularly around the Taiwan question , keep growing. It will be the same in South Korea. Indeed, on a visit to Seoul to meet his counterpart Lee Jong-Sup,…

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Faced with the potential arrival of Su-35s and S-400s in Iran, Israel formalizes an order for 25 F-15EX from Boeing

The tensions between Jerusalem and Tehran are, today, at the heart of the structural instability of the Middle Eastern theater. These are notably the result of the recurring clashes between the Israeli armed forces and the Shiite Hezbollah in Lebanon, as well as those with the Iranian militias in Syria. In recent years, however, these tensions have experienced a very noticeable hardening, around the ballistic missile, cruise missile and long-range drone programs developed by the Iranian defense industry, giving its armies effective strike capabilities against the Israeli territory and in particular its critical infrastructures. Above all, the progress made by the Iranian nuclear program is now…

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The first Russian Su-35se should arrive at the end of winter in Iran

While Iranian defense industries have made immense progress in some areas in recent years, such as drones, but also Baltic and cruise missiles and anti-aircraft systems, Tehran's armies remain often, depending on the area, poorly equipped with obsolete equipment inherited from the Sha era of the late 70s. This is particularly the case for the air forces which, apart from Chinese and Russian fighters acquired in the 90s, use F5, F4 and F-14 aircraft almost 50 years old. In fact, the announcement made by the Iranian authorities this Sunday through…

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