After maintaining a defense posture based on the strict sufficiency of means and a defense effort below the threshold of 1% of GDP during the Cold War and beyond, Japan has, since the middle of the previous decade, undertaken to modernize and strengthen its military capabilities…
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Against the advice of the US Air Force, Lockheed continues to push to place the LMXT / A330 tanker against Boeing's KC-46
At the beginning of last March, the US Air Force announced its decision to reduce the KCy program, which aims to replace part of the oldest KC-135 and KC-10 Extender tanker aircraft still in service, to only 75 aircraft. , compared to 160 devices initially planned. This program, which was to…
Read the articleWhy does the rapid modernization of armies represent a danger for the European defense industry?
The Russian attack against Ukraine, which began in February 2022, was in many ways a real shock for the vast majority of Europeans, whether they are leaders, political figures or for all of public opinion. . In a few hours, three decades of certainty about the impossibility of a major war emerging in…
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