Category: Middle-East

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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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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Negotiations are progressing between Berlin and Jerusalem on the Arrow 3 anti-ballistic system

In many ways, the negotiations that began after the Russian offensive against Ukraine, between Israelis and Germans to allow Germany to implement the Arrow-3 anti-ballistic system, represent the unifying pillar that brought 14 other European countries (Belgium, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Romania, United Kingdom, Slovakia and Slovenia) to join the German European Sky Shield initiative to provide the Europe of integrated anti-aircraft and above all anti-missile defense in order to contain the Russian threat. And while exports of German IRIS-TL systems targeted by this initiative have not really taken off to date, especially in the face of very…

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Turkish defense industry fully mobilized to support President Erdogan in upcoming elections

Rarely have the Turkish elections been so scrupulously followed by so many major world chancelleries, from Washington to Beijing, via Paris, Berlin or even Moscow. Indeed, to face the AKP, the party of justice and development of President Erdogan in power for 21 years, the 6 main opposition parties have made common cause to line up behind Kemal Kilicdaroglu, president of the Republican Party of the Social Democratic and Secular People, to lead the fight, while the popularity of the Turkish president has been severely eroded by the poor economic results of a country marked by galloping inflation of more than 55%...

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Finland formalizes order for Israeli anti-aircraft and anti-missile system David's Sling

In 2020, 10 years after having selected the American-Norwegian NASAMS anti-aircraft system to the detriment of the Franco-Italian Mamba to replace the Buk batteries acquired from the Soviet Union, Helsinki conducted an open consultation to acquire a system complementary anti-aircraft to cover both long-range, high-altitude anti-aircraft defense, and anti-ballistic protection against short-range ballistic missiles. This consultation period ended in November 2021, when the Finnish authorities decided to continue negotiations with two Israeli companies, Elbit and Rafael, with the aim of selecting the final provider at the beginning of 2023. It is now…

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Netherlands looks to US and Israel for long-range strike capabilities

Since the start of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the Netherlands has been one of the European countries that has changed its defense posture the most. From May 2022, Amsterdam announced an increase of €5 billion in its defense investments, i.e. a growth of 40%, to reach by 2024 a defense effort of more than 2% of the country's GDP, where it does not was only 1,41% in 2021, and that it was envisaged in 2020 to drop from the NATO defense objective. Two months later, in July, the Dutch authorities published a very ambitious new White Paper, providing in addition to the increase in…

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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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What are the 3 major dangers linked to European American-centrism in terms of Defense?

For many years, long before President Macron's arrival at the Elysée Palace, the French position on defense had always been more independent than that of its neighbors vis-à-vis American protection. In 2017, when tensions between Berlin and Washington were at their peak, Emmanuel Macron and Engels Merkel launched several industrial and political initiatives to give substance to a very ambitious and quite old project, Defense Europe. However, as relations between Germany and the United States normalized from the following year, the Franco-German cooperation programs gradually withered, largely from…

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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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F-35A, Su-75, FC-31..: which fighter will replace the F-16 of the United Arab Emirates?

In September 2020, against the backdrop of a historic agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, US President Donald Trump announced the acquisition by Abu Dhabi of Reaper drones, but also of EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft and above all of 50 next-generation F-35A fighters, a first in the Middle East. Despite the colossal amount of $23 billion represented by this order, Congress was more than circumspect about it. And despite the efforts of President Trump who, until the last day of his mandate, tried to force the hand of US parliamentarians to endorse the order, it was immediately suspended by Joe Biden barely...

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