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September 29, 2023

The French defense industry is testing its new commercial doctrine in Ukraine

A delegation from the French Defense Industry traveled to Kyiv to negotiate several contracts, including in the form of partnerships with local production, in order to support the Ukrainian war effort. Although many obstacles remain, this is nevertheless a new demonstration of the paradigm shift undertaken by Paris on this subject for several…

September 28, 2023

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

The Czech government has announced that it has validated the future order for 24 F-35A Lightning 2 aircraft from the American Lockheed-Martin, in order to replace, from...

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 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.…