The resilience of civilian populations, as well as of industry and the economy, in the event of major conflict, is at the heart of a country's ability to sustain an effort ...
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US Navy experiments with drones for logistics at sea
According to US Navy statistics, 90% of logistical flights at sea involving an H60 Seahawk or V22 Osprey helicopter in recent years have been carried out for…
Read the articleLogistics, tankers, ammunition: the Pentagon "concrete" the fundamentals
After years of budgetary wandering and reckless spending, the Pentagon's budget is today the object of all the attentions, as well by the staffs as the executive and the Congress, ...
Read the articleNew Russian helicopter carriers can be converted into hospital ships
Like France, which deployed its Mistral and Dixmude assault helicopter carriers to transfer patients affected by Covid19 to Corsica, the Indian Ocean and the Caribbean, ...
Read the articleNew Zealand will buy C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft
The New Zealand government recently confirmed the acquisition of five C-130J Super Hercules transport planes from US aircraft manufacturer Lockheed Martin. Between 2024 and 2025, these five new devices ...
Read the articleWill France acquire a real strategic air transport capacity?
A few days after the Ministry of the Armed Forces recognized France's critical dependence in terms of strategic airlift, Minister Florence Parly asked the…
Read the articleWith Agility Prime, the US Air Force wants to become a major player in the field of "Flying Cars"
From April 27 to May 1, the USAF will organize an event - virtual, coronavirus epidemic obliges - "Agility Prime", named after an innovative Air Force program aimed at acquiring "cars ...
Read the articleThe Pentagon uses TRISO technology to design its mini nuclear reactors
In mid-March 2020, the Pentagon announced that three American companies would be entrusted with studies for the design of a miniaturized nuclear reactor intended to be projected and, potentially, to supply electrical energy to…
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