Speaking ahead of a planned meeting with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev which is to be held in Moscow this Thursday, the Armenian Prime Minister, Nikol Pashinyan, has just dropped a diplomatic bomb in the Kremlin meadow, the Organization of the Collective Security Treaty. Created in 2002 to bring together some…
Read the articleDay: May 23, 2023
For the Baltic countries, the threat remains intense despite the heavy losses suffered by the Russian armies in Ukraine
Prior to the Russian intervention in Ukraine, very few in Western Europe were ready to give credence to the concerns expressed for several years by the states bordering Russia or Belarus, and in particular the Baltic States. At that time, most Western European countries considered…
Read the articlePoland negotiates acquisition of Swedish Saab early warning planes
As we know, Poland has undertaken, for several years, to build a formidable conventional land military power, with 6 mechanized divisions and fielding, among other things, 1,250 modern heavy tanks, 1,600 infantry fighting vehicles, 700 self-propelled guns. 155 mm or even 500 multiple rocket launchers. It would seem…
Read the articleSwedish Saab Gripen E/F regains colors in Thailand after Washington's refusal to deliver F-35s
The Saab Gripen E/F single-engine fighter is once again favored by the Thai air force after the United States refused to sell the F-35A to Bangkok as was excessively expected by the Thai general staff. In January 2022, the Chief of Staff of the Thai Air Force, Air Chief Marshal Napadej Dhupatemiya, declared in a…
Read the articleThe US Air Force does not want to repeat the mistakes of the F-35 program with the NGAD program
According to US Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, it is essential to avoid, with the NGAD program, the same mistakes that handicapped the F-35 program. But this could be much more difficult to do than to say, given the organization of the defense industry across the Atlantic. In an interview given…
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