In 2007, the French Defense Minister of the Fillon government, Hervé Morin, was full of criticism and reservations about the Rafale program: too efficient, too ...
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Category: Swiss
Will the sale of F35A to the UAE limit the performance of devices offered to Switzerland or Finland?
A few days before the American presidential election, President Trump seems to be using all his power to speed up the procedure relating to the sale of the F35A fighter to the Arab Emirates ...
Read the articleSwitzerland barely keeps its hunting fleet
In spite of the polls which gave a clear advantage to the partisans of the modernization of the fighter fleet of the Helvetic Confederation, the referendum which was held this Sunday ...
Read the articleThe Swiss mainly in favor of the acquisition of new fighter planes
On September 27, 2020, Swiss voters are invited to express their views, as part of the AIR2030 plan, on the acquisition of a fleet of combat aircraft to replace the F18s and ...
Read the articleWhat is the deferred Rafale contract that Dassault CEO Eric Trappier referred to?
On the occasion of the presentation of the half-year results to the group's shareholders, Eric Trappier, CEO of Dassault Aviation since 2013, referred to a contract relating to the sale ...
Read the articleIs it too late for the NEURON?
On December 1, 2012, the first European-made combat drone, the NEURON, took to the air for the first time from Istres air base 125, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, to ...
Read the articleThe Swiss army is questioning the operational capabilities of the F-35A as part of its Air2030 tender
A few weeks ago, Lockheed Martin's F-35 stealth fighter was once again in the headlines when DefenseNews confirmed that the use of afterburner - over-revving ...
Read the articleThe Covid-19 epidemic delays competition for Canada's new fighter plane, and could disrupt large numbers of tenders around the world
For several months now, we have come back in detail to the upheavals induced by the Covid-19 epidemic in the defense sector, whether by disrupting ...
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