Category: High Intensity

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

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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India relaunches a competition cut for a Leclerc Mk2 to replace its T-72

In 2015, New Delhi had launched a competition to replace the some 2400 T-72 combat tanks in service since the beginning of the 80s. The specifications then transmitted aimed to acquire a modern combat tank with a mass of 45 to 55 tons, armed with a 120mm gun or more, and equipped with modern sighting and communication systems. Due to the mass restriction, Western tanks such as the Leopard 2 and the Abrams were excluded, and 4 models were then considered: the Ukrainian T-84 Oplot, the South Korean K2 Black Panther, the T-14 Armata Russian…

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Is Ukraine assembling a breakthrough brigade for its upcoming offensive?

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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Long-range artillery: the French are thinking about it, the German industrialists are anticipating it

Long-range artillery has become a critical operational issue for modern armies, its effectiveness in high-intensity conflicts having been widely demonstrated in Ukraine. And in this field, modern systems, such as the HIMARS from the American Lockheed-Martin or the Russian Tornado S and G, provide considerable added value over older systems, in particular due to their precision and a range unmatched by previous generation systems. In the West, only the United States had proven know-how in the field, the latter having developed the M270 MRLS which entered service in 1980 as a response to the Soviet Grad and Smerch.…

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A month after being unveiled, the Czech Republic wants to acquire 70 Leopard 2A8 tanks

Just over a month ago, the Bundeswehr announced an order for 18 Leopard 2 heavy tanks from its manufacturer Krauss-Maffei Wegmann, to replace the 18 Leopard 2A6s sent to Ukraine to support the war effort in Kyiv. If this order had been expected and even announced for several weeks, it nevertheless surprised the small world of armored specialists. Indeed, where everyone was waiting for the Leopard 2A7++ derived from the model sold to Hungary a few months earlier, the Bundeswehr announced that it was acquiring a new version of the tank, the Leopard 2A8, a model designed discreetly by…

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Danish armies choose Rheinmetall's Skyranger 30 short-range anti-aircraft system

In March 2021, Rheinmetall presented the Skyranger system for the first time to the public, a short-range anti-aircraft and anti-drone turret armed with either a 35 mm (Skyranger 35) or 30 mm (Skyranger 30) cannon. can be carried by a medium armored vehicle like the Boxer, or a truck from 6×6. With a combat weight of 2,5 tons for a crew of 3, the Skyranger turret implements, in addition to the gun, an anti-aircraft missile launcher that can accommodate 4 very short-range missiles such as the Stinger or the Mistral , as well as an AESA radar with 5 flat face antennas…

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Why does the format of the French armies not correspond to the operational contract presented by the Minister for the Armed Forces?

While the Defense Commission of the National Assembly amended and validated the draft Military Programming Law 2024-2030, adding in particular the obligation for the State to guarantee the €13 billion in exceptional revenue in the financing plan, the Minister of the Armed Forces, partly overwhelmed by the many criticisms of the "lack of ambition" of this LPM which will nevertheless see, and by far, the most significant budgetary growth for the Armed Forces for 30 years, insisted on specifying what were the objectives, particularly in terms of the operational contract. This is how in a Tweet on his account, Sebastien Lecornu wanted to detail the…

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The Army wants to extend its Leclerc tanks until 2045 despite the operational and industrial risks

While the question of the modernization and extension of the heavy segment of the land armed forces is at the heart of many public debates in Europe, in France the subject was passed over in silence for many months, including during the presentation of the future Military Programming Law 2024-2030. Thus, while across the Rhine, industrialists and the military have agreed to postpone by 10 years (at least) the schedule of the Franco-German Main Ground Combat System program to replace the German Leopard 2 and French Leclerc tanks initially for 2035, no official consideration of this state of affairs had not been made, or at all…

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After the Netherlands, the Israeli long-range artillery system PULS could seduce Spain

A few days ago, the Spanish Army announced that it intended to obtain, within the framework of the modernization of its artillery capacities, 12 long-range artillery systems so as to arm two batteries within the Grupo de Artillerie Lanzacohetes de Campaña (Field Rocket Artillery Group) or GALCA. For the Spanish forces, as for the majority of armed forces in Europe, it is a question of reinforcing the engagement capacities in terms of high intensity, and of reinforcing the strike capacities in the depth of the enemy device, whose effectiveness was demonstrated in Ukraine, especially when the air forces were, as for…

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Airbus' super-speedy Racer helicopter demonstrator should (really) fly this year

Twice, on March 7 and 15, 2022, several transport and attack helicopters of the Russian forces in forward deployment at Kherson International Airport were victims of Ukrainian attacks which destroyed or seriously damaged at least fifteen aircraft with an artillery strike and a special forces attack. In accordance with Russian doctrine, the aircraft had indeed been deployed as close as possible to the engagement zone, so as to reduce transit times and reaction times to support the forces. Unfortunately for the Russian general staff, the Ukrainians were able to take advantage of this weakness to carry out one of the first brilliant actions...

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