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How much would it cost French taxpayers to align the Army's high-intensity capabilities with Poland?

In recent months, in connection with the war in Ukraine and the generalized increase in the risk of major engagement in Europe and elsewhere, the question of the capacities of the armies to face a so-called "high intensity" conflict has become a recurring theme. both in the hemicycle of parliament and in government communication, the media and social networks. Very often, Poland, which has announced a colossal effort to modernize and expand its land capabilities in this area in the years to come, is cited as a reference, making Warsaw the example to follow. The 2024-2030 Military Programming Law being finalized...

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How can the evolution of the doctrine of possession of equipment make it possible to extend the format of the armies?

At the end of the 60s and the beginnings of on-board electronic systems, military equipment experienced very rapid growth in performance and capabilities. At the same time, their costs of acquisition and implementation also experienced a doped increase, far exceeding the increase in military budgets. In an attempt to maintain the formats and above all the operational capacities, the military and industrialists undertook to rely on two characteristics made possible thanks to the contributions of electronics and information technology, namely the versatility of the equipment, and their scalability to extend the effective life in the forces. This is how the…

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Why giving fighter jets to Ukraine is more complicated than it seems?

For several weeks, the very day after the agreement given by Washington and Berlin regarding the delivery of heavy tanks, President Zelensky and his government have been putting pressure on their Western allies to obtain a new type of defence, and not least, since they are combat aircraft. And in fact, since that date, not a day goes by without press articles or official statements from Kyiv claiming F-16s from the United States, Typhoons and Tornados from the British and Germans. , and Rafales and Mirages to France, without…

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Leopard 2, Leclerc, Merkava: What are modern battle tanks worth? (1/3)

Article from August 30, 2021 updated on January 27, 2023 Since its first appearance on the battlefields during the First World War, the battle tank has been the subject of both extreme fascination for some, and a total denial for others. Over the course of the conflicts, and the appearance of new weapon systems, such as the anti-tank missile or more recently the loitering ammunition, the end of the supremacy of the tank in land combat has many times been prophesied, following the example other major armaments such as aircraft carriers or combat aircraft. However, it is clear today that...

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After the F-135 engine, the F-35 will also change radar with the AN/APG-85

In a synthetic way, it is common to say that a combat aircraft is none other than the association of a cell, an engine and a radar. And the devices that marked their time, such as the F4 Phantom II, the Mirage III, the Mig-21, the F-15, the F-16 or the Su-27, all respected this definition, relying on the perfect complementarity of these 3 key components. For fifteen years, Lockheed-Martin's F-35 has also been presented as the most striking aircraft of its generation, and as such has been adorned with all the virtues. However, under the leadership of the US Air Force, it seems that...

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Are “light” fighters destined to disappear?

It is now official, the Rafale has the preference of the Colombian authorities to replace its armed fighter fleet today with Israeli Kfir fighters. Although it is not, strictly speaking, an order for 16 new aircraft, Colombia is now in exclusive negotiations with Dassault Aviation and the French authorities to give substance to it, after having publicly estimated that the Rafale was "the best option for the country in terms of price, efficiency and operability", while being 30% cheaper to use than the Kfir currently in service. With this likely success, the Rafale would exceed the number of aircraft exported for the Mirage 2000 with…

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After the Puma, the availability of Pzh2000 self-propelled guns handicaps the Bundeswehr

The German defense industry has hardly been celebrating in recent days. Indeed, since the declarations of the commander of the 10th armored division of the Bundeswehr about the catastrophic behavior of 18 Puma infantry fighting vehicles during a recent exercise, the shares of the main German industrial players have experienced a significant drop, -5,5% for Krauss Maffei Wegman, and -10,5% for Rheinmetall, the two main manufacturers involved in the design and manufacture of the Puma. And yesterday's announcement by German Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht about the suspension of Puma acquisitions by the Bundeswehr until further notice,…

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6 recurring but erroneous statements around the SCAF next-generation aircraft program

Announced in 2017 shortly after Emmanuel Macron's arrival at the Elysée for his first term, the SCAF program, for Future Air Combat System, represents one of the two main pillars, along with the MGCS program, of France's ambition -Germany developed on this date to strengthen European strategic autonomy in the field of defense around strategic industrial cooperation between the two countries. Since then, the program has integrated Spain within it, but has above all been marked by growing and increasingly divisive tensions between Paris and Berlin, more particularly between the industrialists of the two countries, in particular around the first and main 7 pillars…

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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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The French Navy wants to model its capability strategy on aeronautical programs

When it entered service in 2002 within the 12F flotilla of naval aviation to replace its antediluvian F-8F Crusader, the first Rafale Marines were delivered to the F1 standard, which then only had air-to-air capabilities. But from the start of the program, the scalability of the device and the planning of the versions were at the heart of the strategy pursued by the Ministry of Defense and Team Rafale. Thus in 2005, the Air Force began to receive its first Rafale B and C to the F2 standard, specialized in Air-Ground strikes to replace the withdrawal of Franco-British SEPECAT Jaguars, followed in 2009 of the Rafale…

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