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September 28, 2023

The Czech Republic will order 24 F-35As to replace its JAS 39 Gripen from 2029.

The Czech government announced that it had validated the future order for 24 F-35A Lightning 2 aircraft from the American Lockheed-Martin, in order to replace, from the end of the decade, the 12 JAS 39C Gripen, and 2 JAS 39D in two-seater version training units, leased from Sweden since 2005. Good week for Lockheed-Martin. Indeed, after…

September 26, 2023

MBDA France's Mistral 3 missile continues to appeal to the Spanish Armed Forces

The Spanish armies will continue to use the very short-range surface-to-air Mistral missile developed by MBDA France. The Spanish government...

September 25, 2023

Can Nexter's CAESAR enter the Indian super-competition for 1200 artillery systems?

As demonstrated by its commercial success as on the Ukrainian battlefields, the 155 mm truck-mounted CAESAR cannon from Nexter is...

September 22, 2023

There could be more than one North Korean nuclear missile submarine under construction

At the beginning of September, the KCNA news agency announced the launch of a new North Korean submarine, presented then as a nuclear attack submarine...

September 21, 2023

By ordering 761 MMP missiles, Belgium is once again placing its trust in France.

Belgium has announced the order for 761 MMP (or AKERON MP) anti-tank missiles from MBDA France, to arm its 60 armored reconnaissance vehicles...

September 28, 2023

Will China's Shenlong spaceplane serve as an ASAT anti-satellite system?

On August 26, 2022, a Long March 2F rocket put China's Shenlong spaceplane into orbit, for a mission that will last 276 days. This show of force by the Chinese space industry represented a response from Beijing to the orbital flight of more than 900 days carried out by the Boeing X-37B space plane a few months earlier.…