Category: Technologies - Industry

Russia launches a major program to densify the country's anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense

Prior to the Russian aggression against Ukraine, a majority of analysts considered, not without many objective reasons, that Russian multi-layered anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense was one of the most efficient, if not the most performance of the planet. This indeed associated several types of specialized and complementary systems, such as the S-400 dedicated to anti-aircraft and anti-missile defense at medium and high altitude, the S-300PMU for anti-ballistic defense, the Buk for medium and low altitude tactics, as well as the TOR and Pantsir systems for close defense. This defense, supplemented by the A-135 heavy anti-ballistic systems positioned around Moscow…

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Singapore's new class of super-frigates will boost the country's Navy tonnage by 70%

Singapore is, in many areas, the country of superlatives, especially in terms of defence. Indeed, despite a population of only 5,5 million inhabitants, and a country that covers only 733 km2, i.e. 10% more than the area of ​​the Territory of Belfort, the Singaporean armies are among the most effective and powerfully armed in the Indo-Pacific theater. Thus, with a budget of $17 billion per year, or 4% of GDP, the armed forces of the small republic are 71.000 strong, mostly conscripts carrying out 2-year military service, and have a mighty force...

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Canada is also turning to the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft

Some victories are obtained through hard struggle, others, less glorious but just as effective, for lack of an adversary. It is probably this last case that explains the success of Boeing's P-8A Maritime Patrol aircraft in recent years. Entering service in 2013 to replace the US Navy's P-3 Orion, the Poseidon has since established itself in 7 other air forces, and not the least, ranging from Australia to Norway, via Germany and even India. To date, 131 aircraft have been ordered from Boeing, including 91 by the US Navy, while more than 90 are in service, mostly in the US Navy. He…

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North Korea claims to have miniaturized its nuclear warheads

While there is a considerable hierarchy in defense between the countries that have nuclear weapons and those that do not, there is also a significant hierarchy between the few countries that have such weapons. Beyond the power of the nuclear warheads possessed, and the number of them within the arsenal, the technologies of the vectors capable of transporting these weapons play a crucial role in this field. Indeed, having a gravitational nuclear bomb, which can only be used by a combat aircraft that is known to be vulnerable and limited in range, is in no way comparable to having…

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Blow for Rheinmetall's KF51 Panther, Berlin turns to Leopard 2A7V to replace tanks sent to Ukraine

Apart from doing a handstand, Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall, will probably have tried everything in recent weeks to convince the Bundeswehr to turn to its new tank, the KF51 Panther, in particular to replace the 18 Leopard A26s sent by Berlin. in Ukraine in support of Kyiv's defense effort against Moscow. Unfortunately for him, it will not. Indeed, the president of the defense committee at the Bundestag, Agnès Strack-Zimmermann, confirmed yesterday in an interview with Frankfurter Rundschau, that the Bundeswehr was going to order new Leopard 2 tanks in their ultimate A7V version, but also Pzh2000 self-propelled guns, …

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The F-35 is fast approaching the Navy but also the Spanish Air Force

The American F-35 equips or has been ordered today by no less than 9 European air forces, while 3 others, Greece, Romania and the Czech Republic, have already announced their intention to provide it in the short or medium term. Not only will it become the most used aircraft in Europe, but it will form, for many air forces, the only aircraft in operation. To date, only 3 major European air forces have not announced their intention to acquire Lockheed-Martin's fighter-bomber: France, Sweden and Spain. It is now more than likely that Paris and Stockholm will continue alone…

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The HIMARS mobile artillery system will carry 1000 km in the coming years

Along with the CAESAR, the TB2 and the Javelin, the HIMARS mobile artillery system was one of the great operational revelations of the first year of the war in Ukraine. Armed with 6 M30 or M31 rockets with a range of 15 to 90 km, this system mounted on a 6×6 truck is both very mobile thanks to its 290 hp for a mass of only 16 tonnes, and very effective against the enemy's rear lines, thanks to its great precision and the destructive power of the warhead of the rockets. The HIMARS can also implement the Ground Launch Small Diameter Bomb ammunition,…

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Romania will spend 10 billion euros to modernize its armies

With a defense budget of €7,8 billion per year, or 2% of the country's GDP, Romania is one of NATO's good students, even if this effort is handicapped by a GDP of less than $300 billion and one of the lowest per capita GDPs in the European Union. The increase in the defense effort, which began in 2013 after Vladimir's return to the Kremlin and the significant hardening of the Russian posture in Eastern Europe, made it possible to increase the defense effort by 1,2% of GDP to 2% today, and to aim for 2,5% in the years to come,…

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Can Gamers and Artificial Intelligence Improve the Effectiveness of Military Simulations?

Wargame-type military simulations have always been a valuable tool for staffs, but since the return of international tensions, their importance has increased considerably due to geopolitical developments in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. While it was accepted in the 1990s that no military power could hope to oppose the West militarily, the rise in power of the Chinese, Russian, Iranian and even North Korean armed forces forced the staffs to rely on increasingly numerous and precise simulations to plan their own increase in power and organize their forces and resources. NATO frequently organizes simulation sessions…

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Italy is giving itself the means but is struggling to find the military for its new defense ambitions

The increase in appropriations devoted to defense had been one of Giorgia Meloni's campaign commitments, with the stated ambition of bringing the Italian defense effort to 2% by the end of the decade, against 1,51 .2023% in XNUMX. And in fact, speaking to the Senate earlier this week, the now Prime Minister of the country confirmed that she intended to strictly apply her campaign commitments in this area, and this in a perfectly open manner. and assumed. She was referring here to the increase in the budget of the armies granted by the previous coalition which was done in the most discreet way possible, so as to...

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