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24 mars 2023

Italy is giving itself the means but is struggling to find the military for its new defense ambitions

The increase in appropriations devoted to defense had been one of Giorgia Meloni's campaign commitments, with the stated ambition of bringing the Italian defense effort to 2% by the end of the decade, against 1,51 .2023% in XNUMX. And in fact, speaking to the Senate earlier this week, the now Prime Minister of the country confirmed that she intended to strictly apply her commitments to...

23 mars 2023

The air forces of the 4 Scandinavian countries will now act as a unified force

The 4 countries forming Scandinavia, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden, share, beyond their history and a weather that is cool to say the least, many geographical, demographic and...

23 mars 2023

US Space Force calls for $16 billion to detect and track new hypersonic missiles

Last July, a large part of the French defense sphere was in a frenzy, after the European Commission awarded the Spanish SENER Aeroespacial, supported by the German Diehl and several other companies...

22 mars 2023

US Air Force Begins Development of Space Component Long-Range Kill-Chain

The war in Ukraine has produced many new lessons, in particular on the potential duration of a very high intensity engagement, or on the role of artillery and heavy armor in the maneuver...

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...

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...

24 mars 2023

After Russia, North Korea is surfing on the fantasy of the nuclear torpedo capable of creating a Tsunami

On March 1, 2018, during a televised address as part of the presidential election campaign, President Vladimir Putin publicly announced the upcoming arrival, within the Russian armed forces, of 6 new weapons that will bring the world, and Westerners in particular, to “listen to Russia again,” in his words. Beyond the Kinzhal and Avangard hypersonic weapons as well as the...

23 mars 2023

Should the French Army turn to the German Rheinmetall KF-51 Panther tank?

That's it.. they cracked... It's probably in...

22 mars 2023

The hypothesis of the KF-51 Panther tanks built in Ukraine puzzles specialists

At the beginning of March, the bubbling president of the...

20 mars 2023

Despite a budget up by €11 billion/year since 2017, why are the French armies still bloodless?

The execution of the French Military Programming Law 2019-2025 in...

16 mars 2023

Should we reconsider the potential of naval artillery for combatant surface ships?

In the early 2000s, the US Navy set out to design...

15 mars 2023

With the CVX program, will South Korea build the ideal aircraft carrier for export?

In the early 2000s, the South Korean defense industry was...

14 mars 2023

These 7 technologies that will transform warfare by 2030

Since the beginning of the Russian aggression against Ukraine, many...

10 mars 2023

Why is the cruiser once again becoming a credible option for world navies?

On July 9, 1995, the USS Port Royal entered service,...

9 mars 2023

Is there a pilot for the French defense industrial strategy?

With the return of war to Europe and the...

8 mars 2023

After support aircraft, American fighters will also have to evolve profoundly in the years to come.

As is the case every year at the same...

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...