Category: Tests and Validations

South Korea's KF-21 Boramae fighter aircraft program passes first combat qualification

Less than a year after the prototype of the new generation South Korean KF-21 Boramae fighter made its first flight, the KFX program is continuing at full speed to meet the very ambitious schedule which plans to start series production as early as 2024. and the entry into service of the first aircraft in 2026 to replace the F-4 and F-5 still in service with the country's air force. Indeed, in a statement from the South Korean news agency Yonhap, the agency overseeing the acquisition of the country's armament programs announced that the device had just passed an initial evaluation of its combat capabilities so ...

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Russia begins development of new strategic ballistic missile for future submarines

According to Russian doctrine, each new class of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SNLE) corresponds to a new dedicated model of strategic ballistic missiles launched under water. Thus the SSBNs of project 667, designated by NATO as the Delta type, which entered service between 1976 and 1990, were all armed with R-29 Underwater Strategic Ballistic Missiles (MSBN), even if these These were declined in several models from the initial R-29 arming the Delta I and II, to the R-29RMU2 Layner appeared in 2014 and arming the latest Delta IV. The successor to the R-29, the R-30 Bulava, was to arm the new SSBNs of the class…

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The new Russian 155mm self-propelled gun 2S35 Koalitsiya-SV still stuck in state tests

Russian artillery was considered, prior to the intervention in Ukraine, as one of the most powerful on the planet. This lined up more than 1600 2S3 Akatsiya and 2S19 Msta-s tracked self-propelled guns, equipped with a 152mm/27 caliber and 152mm/37 caliber tube respectively, as well as a thousand other self-propelled systems ranging from from the 122mm howitzer to the 240mm mortar. However, Ukrainian gunners managed, with identical systems but available in much smaller quantities, to compete with their Russian counterparts during the first months of the conflict, in particular thanks to the intensive and well-integrated use of reconnaissance drones and a system…

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After the TB2 drone, will the Turkish Hürjet training and attack aircraft be Ankara's next export success?

As we have already mentioned, announcements follow one another at a frantic pace in recent weeks, about Turkish military equipment programs. After the first flight of the Kizilelma supersonic drone at the end of last year, and the presentation of the ANCA-3 stealth drone a month ago, it was the turn of the helicopter carrier and drone carrier TCG Anadolu to join the Turkish Navy on April 10, then to the first two Altay tanks equipped with a South Korean engine and transmission, to be presented to the public a few days ago. Clearly there are important electoral considerations behind this acceleration in announcements, with the defense industry having been one…

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Should we reconsider the potential of naval artillery for combatant surface ships?

In the early 2000s, the US Navy began designing a new class of heavy destroyers, the DD-21 program, designated as "Landward Attack Destroyers". The program will give birth to the Zumwalt class, a ship 190 meters long for a laden displacement of almost 16.000 tons, with great stealth and a particularly low line on the water to reduce vulnerability to missiles. anti-shipping. In addition to the 20 Mk47 vertical launch systems of 4 silos each accommodating 4 short and medium range anti-aircraft missiles ESSM or a Tomahawk cruise missile, the main armament of the ship was based on 2 new…

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US Navy LCS mine warfare module soon to be operational

The US Navy's naval construction planning has been chaotic to say the least for the past 30 years, to the point that the most powerful military navy on the planet today faces some emerging capability failures. This is particularly the case for mine warfare, this mission still being carried out to this day by 11 of the 14 minehunters of the Avenger class which entered service between 1987 and 1994. While these ships have already reached their limit of age, the US Navy is indeed unable to remove them from service until an alternative capability enters service,…

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Iron Fist hard-kill system only protects American Bradleys 70% of the time

Entering service in the early 2010s to protect the Merkava tanks and the Namer infantry fighting vehicles of the Israeli armed forces, the hard-Kill Trophy and Iron Fist active protection systems of the Israelis Raphael and Elbit, have proven to be very effective during armed interventions in the occupied Palestinian territories, and intercepting dozens of RPG anti-tank rockets but also Konkurs and Kornet missiles fired by the Iranian Hezbollah. The fact is, no Israeli tank was lost during the military operations of the early 2010s, due to the firing of anti-tank ammunition. This efficiency has not escaped...

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The US Army will have a first hypersonic capability from the end of 2023

The entry into service in 2018 of the Russian Kinzhal hypersonic airborne missile had the effect of a cold shower across the Atlantic, while the Pentagon had been accustomed to positioning itself at the top of the defense technological pyramid since the end of the 80s. Suddenly, Russia, a country perceived as defeated in the Cold War, with a GDP barely greater than that of Spain, was not only equipping itself with technology that the US armies did not have, but which they did not have. could, in the state, protect themselves. The reaction of pride from Washington and the Pentagon was on the scale of the sudden affront, since as early as 2019, no less than…

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The US Army worries about the endurance of its new extended range artillery guns

Among the lessons learned from the conflict in Ukraine, the central role of artillery in high-intensity conflicts is undoubtedly the most important, while heavy artillery capabilities had been neglected for the past 30 years, to the point of being reduced to their bare minimum in many Western armies, including the French Army and even the US Army. If the number of "tubes" per soldier has thus been divided by 3 since 1990 in the West, the performance of Western artillery systems has, for their part, experienced dazzling progress, both in terms of precision and range or mobility. . The arrival of modern systems…

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Despite a successful test, the future of the American AGM-183A ARRW hypersonic missile is not guaranteed

In the middle of the electoral campaign for his re-election to the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin stunned the world of defense on March 1, 2018, when he announced, during a television interview, that the hypersonic airborne missile Kinzhal had entered service a few months earlier in the within the Russian Air Force. With a range of 2000 km, the Russian missile, which can be used from the Mig-31K heavy interceptor or the Tu-22M3 long-range bomber, follows a semi-ballistic trajectory with significant evolution capabilities and a speed greater than Mach 5, making it particularly difficult to detect and intercept for traditional anti-ballistic systems such as the…

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