The US Air Force tested stand-off deployment of QS-ER naval mines from a B-52H. If much of the attention regarding modern naval combat focuses on the use of anti-ship missiles, sometimes hypersonic, the weapon having, in recent decades, caused the most damage as...
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India relaunches a competition designed for a Leclerc Mk2 to replace its T-72s
Can India and France collaborate to develop a new Leclerc Mk2 battle tank derived from the EMBT demonstrator? This is far from unthinkable today. In 2015, New Delhi launched a competition to replace the approximately 2,400 T-72 battle tanks in service since the start of…
Read the articleF-35 program deadlines and costs continue to slide dangerously across the Atlantic
Once again, a GAO report warns of cost increases for the F-35 program in recent years, as well as deadlines that are slipping inexorably. For around ten years now, each year, the US Government Accountability Office, or GAO, the American equivalent of the Court of Auditors,…
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