Category: Anti-ship missiles

Why is the cruiser once again becoming a credible option for world navies?

On July 9, 1995, the USS Port Royal entered service, the last Ticonderoga-class cruiser to join the US Navy, but also the last cruiser produced in the West, or at least designated as such. On a planetary scale, it was only followed by the Russian nuclear battlecruiser Piotr Veliki (Peter the Great), the 3rd and last unit of the Kirov class to have joined the Russian Navy in 1998 after 15 years of construction and that the last 3 units were canceled following the collapse of the Soviet bloc. Following this, none of the world's major navies produced a cruiser, until…

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Can the future standard Rafale F5 evolve into a Super Rafale?

A few days ago, the first Rafale to the F4.1 standard was delivered to the Military Air Expertise Center, or CEAM, at Air Base 118 in Mont-de-Marsan. This new standard will equip the Rafale with new expected capabilities, such as the helmet sight, new air-to-air and air-to-ground modes of its engagement system, extended data fusion and a completely modernized SPECTRA self-protection system. . In addition, the device will be able to implement new ammunition such as the short and medium range air-to-air missile MICA NG which promises to be the best in its category, as was the MICA at the beginning of the…

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Should the UAE Mirage 2000-9 be taken over to densify the Air and Space Force?

The next French military programming law, which will cover the period 2024 to 2030, promises to be ambitious, with a defense effort brought to more than 2,25% of GDP, and an increase of nearly 35% in the budget allocation. to armies. However, in the opinion of many analysts and former senior and general officers, it will not make it possible to remedy certain critical shortcomings of the armed forces, particularly in terms of format. This will be the case for the Air and Space Force fighter fleet, which will certainly experience an increase in power with the delivery of 80 Rafale aircraft over this period, reinforcing…

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Faced with NATO, Vladimir Putin announces the strengthening of the Russian nuclear triad

Two days ago, after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the suspension of the New Start Treaty, we wrote that this decision paved the way for a future build-up of Russia's operational nuclear arsenal, the latter being today today the only asset remaining in the hands of the head of the Kremlin, to justify Russia's status as a superpower on the international scene, while its conventional forces have been very severely reduced by a year of war in Ukraine. It only took two days, and despite the skeptical comments of some journalists on this subject, for the…

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The future Italian destroyer DDX will have unparalleled firepower in Europe

In July 2019, the Italian Navy General Staff presented a plan of great ambition, to make it the most powerful naval force in the Mediterranean by 2035. Beyond the Trieste aircraft carrier of 38.000 tons intended to implement F-35B fighters and the Cavour of 30.000 tons also dedicated to this function, the plan provided for it to align three large carrier assault ships by this date. 20.000 ton helicopters which will replace the 3 San Giorgio class LHDs, 10 Bergamini class FREMM frigates, 7 Thaon di Revel class PPA medium frigates, 8 3000 ton corvettes from the program…

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China announces that the YJ-21 hypersonic anti-ship missile is in service aboard its Type 055 destroyers

When it comes to hypersonic missiles, the mainstream media seems to consider only the advances made by Russia, whether it's the Avangard hypersonic glider, the Kinzhal airborne missile and the 3M22 Tzirkon anti-ship missile, which hit the headlines a while ago. a few weeks when the frigate Admiral Gorshkov undertook a deployment in the Indian Ocean passing not far from the European coast. Russia, however, is not the only one to have recorded significant successes in this area. North Korea has thus carried out several tests in recent months of a ballistic missile equipped with a hypersonic glider, while China has admitted to service…

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The first Russian Su-35se should arrive at the end of winter in Iran

While Iranian defense industries have made immense progress in some areas in recent years, such as drones, but also Baltic and cruise missiles and anti-aircraft systems, Tehran's armies remain often, depending on the area, poorly equipped with obsolete equipment inherited from the Sha era of the late 70s. This is particularly the case for the air forces which, apart from Chinese and Russian fighters acquired in the 90s, use F5, F4 and F-14 aircraft almost 50 years old. In fact, the announcement made by the Iranian authorities this Sunday through…

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After the Su-35s, Iran would be interested in Russian combat ships

Reports of an extended defense agreement between Tehran and Moscow have been constantly appearing in recent days, in particular regarding the acquisition of no less than 20.000 Iranian-designed drones and ballistic missiles by Russia in order to strengthen strike capabilities against Ukraine and its infrastructure. At the same time, Tehran would have obtained from its now partner and ally, agreements concerning the acquisition of very advanced military equipment, such as the 24 Su-35s initially built for Egypt, but never delivered. The growing isolation of the two countries on the world stage is indeed a particularly favorable framework for a rapprochement between…

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US Congress changes legislation to increase ammunition production

The war in Ukraine has shattered many certainties about armed conflict in recent months, including the supposed superiority of units formed by professionals over units of conscripts or reservists, the supreme role of aviation on the battlefield, or the supposed obsolescence of the battle tank. One of the most widespread certainties, including at the highest level of the armies, was that a high-intensity conflict, such as the one unfolding today, could not be extended over time, the excess of power of fire and precision ammunition necessarily leading to…

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The new Taiwanese submarine will be launched in September 2023

Since the normalization of relations between the West and Beijing from 1995, the island of Taiwan, autonomous since 1949, and claimed by the People's Republic of China since that date, has encountered increasing difficulties in modernizing its defense tool. Indeed, the Chinese authorities perfectly knew how to handle a very attractive carrot, the Chinese economic potential for Western companies, and a powerful stick, the immediate and severe deterioration of diplomatic and economic relations, if one of its Western partners were to intervene in the modernization of the Taiwanese armies. This strategy proved to be extraordinarily effective, all of Taiwan's traditional defense partners,…

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