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30 mars 2023

Singapore's new class of super-frigates will boost the country's Navy tonnage by 70%

Singapore is, in many areas, the country of superlatives, especially in terms of defence. Indeed, despite a population of only 5,5 million inhabitants, and a country that covers only 733 km2, i.e. 10% more than the area of the Territory of Belfort, the Singaporean armies are among the most effective and powerfully armed in the Indo-Pacific theater. So,...

29 mars 2023

Canada is also turning to the Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft

Some victories are obtained through hard struggle, others, less glorious but just as effective, for lack of an adversary. It is probably this last case that explains the success of the Boeing P-8A Maritime Patrol aircraft in recent years...

29 mars 2023

North Korea claims to have miniaturized its nuclear warheads

If there is a considerable hierarchy in defense between the countries with nuclear weapons, and those which are not, there is also a significant hierarchy between the few countries having...

28 mars 2023

Blow for Rheinmetall's KF51 Panther, Berlin turns to Leopard 2A7V to replace tanks sent to Ukraine

Apart from doing a handstand, Armin Papperger, CEO of Rheinmetall, will probably have tried everything in recent weeks to convince the Bundeswehr to turn to its new tank, the KF51 Panther, in particular...

27 mars 2023

The HIMARS mobile artillery system will carry 1000 km in the coming years

Along with the CAESAR, the TB2 and the Javelin, the HIMARS mobile artillery system was one of the great operational revelations of the first year of the war in Ukraine. Armed with 6 M30 rockets or...

27 mars 2023

Romania will spend 10 billion euros to modernize its armies

With a defense budget of €7,8 billion per year, or 2% of the country's GDP, Romania is one of the good students of NATO, even if this effort is handicapped by a GDP...

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. ..

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...

29 mars 2023

The new aircraft carrier of the French Navy again threatened by budgetary arbitrations

On the occasion of the presidential greetings to the armies at the end of January, President Emmanuel Macron had outlined the main lines of the future Military Programming Law 2024-2030 currently being prepared. Thus, the budget allocated to the Armed Forces over this period should reach €400 billion, plus €13 billion in exceptional revenue, while certain programs, including the very emblematic Aircraft Carrier of...

28 mars 2023

The F-35 is fast approaching the Navy but also the Spanish Air Force

The American F-35 equips or has been ordered, today, not...

27 mars 2023

Can Gamers and Artificial Intelligence Improve the Effectiveness of Military Simulations?

Wargame-type military simulations have always been a...

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 speech in...

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...

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...