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21 mars 2023

Italian-British-Japanese GCAP 6th generation fighter program specializes in air superiority

Announced at the 2018 Farnbourouh air show, the Futur Combat Air System program and the British 6th generation Tempest fighter was then perceived by many experts as a proud response to the announcement of the upcoming launch of the Franco-German SCAF program in autumn 2017. And even if European partners, such as the Italian Leonardo or the missile MBDA, participated in the British program, many...

21 mars 2023

The British Army Ajax armored vehicle emerges from the rut to enter service in 2025

Of all the European armies, the British Army is undoubtedly the one that has undergone the most drastic slimming since the end of the Cold War, going from 158.000 men and 900 tanks...

20 mars 2023

The Democratic Republic of Congo aims to acquire Chinese J-10C fighters

Like many African countries, the Democratic Republic of Congo is experiencing significant economic growth, of the order of 6% per year, partly driven by the rise in raw materials on the international scene....

17 mars 2023

After the A-10, the US Air Force wants to withdraw its F-15Cs from service by 2030

The preparation of the annual budget of the American armed forces is a very rich period of lessons, allowing in particular the 3 forces of the country, the executive on the one hand, the Congress on the other hand, but also the armed forces...

17 mars 2023

British Army urgently orders 14 Archer self-propelled guns to replace AS90 sent to Ukraine

In November 2019, at the request of the British Ministry of Defence, the think tank Royal United Services Institute, made a vitriolic statement about the means available to the British Army,...

16 mars 2023

Faced with the Chinese navy, the US Navy aims for the asymmetrical balance of power in the Pacific

A few days ago, the shipyards of Dalian, in the northeast of the country in Liaoning province, simultaneously launched 2 new Type 052D destroyers, the 27th and 28th units of this...

15 mars 2023

Lithuania wants to acquire 50 battle tanks to arm its new mechanized division

Like the two other Baltic states, Lithuania, which joined NATO in March 2004 and the European Union 2 months later, devotes a relatively large part of its wealth to its armies,...

14 mars 2023

Poland to develop heavy infantry fighting vehicle to support its M1A2 Abrams tanks

Will Poland, on its own, completely neutralize the Russian ground threat in the years to come? In any case, this is the question that we can ask ourselves by observing the ambitions of...

14 mars 2023

Canberra, London and Washington presented a solid strategy to equip Australia with nuclear attack submarines

The acquisition of nuclear attack submarines (SNA) by the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), announced 18 months ago now as part of the creation of the AUKUS alliance between Australia, the United Kingdom and the...

10 mars 2023

Italy, Germany, Poland ..: all in Europe increase their heavy armored forces, except Great Britain and France

The lessons of the war in Ukraine are numerous, and sometimes come to severely undermine certain paradigms powerfully anchored in the Western defense staffs and ministries. Two of these lessons concern...

27 janvier 2023

Altay, Black Panther, Oplot: What are modern battle tanks worth? 3/3

Article from September 15, 2021 updated on January 27, 2023. It was said to be outdated or too vulnerable, yet the battle tank has experienced a remarkable resurgence of interest in recent years from the major world armies. After having presented the main Western, Russian and Chinese tanks in the two previous articles, we are going, in this final analysis, to focus on...