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The launch of the Hai Kun (Narval) submarine, the first Taiwanese-made submarine, gave rise to a national-scale ceremony in the presence of President Tsai Ing-wen, who underlined its exceptional nature by declaring that this project was still considered impossible to achieve, there is no…
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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 demonstration 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 space plane...
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With the announcement of an upcoming order for 48 F-35A fighter jets by Romania, Lockheed-Martin secures a dominant position within European fighter fleets by 2035, when it will equip more than three quarters of the air forces of the old continent at that date. This appetite of the air forces…
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The withdrawal from Niger and French disengagement in Africa sounds like a wake-up call for an Army hitherto entirely focused on power projection and external operations. What are the foreseeable or necessary consequences on its organization, as well as on its major current equipment programs,…
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With the return of the risk of major conflict, including in Europe, NATO air forces are resuming dispersal exercises for their fighter fleet, in order to respond to the threat of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles and attack drones at long range, on military airfields in…
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During the first months following the Russian aggression, Western chancelleries feared a nuclear escalation in Ukraine, and even the use by Russia of nuclear weapons, sometimes referred to as tactical or low intensity, if military operations came to an end. fail. So in March 2022, after it became clear…
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According to a video published a few days ago, the Russian plant in Kaluga has resumed turbine production for new T-80 tanks. This observation attests to the considerable effort made by the Russian authorities to increase industrial defense production, in a much longer-term strategy...
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For several months, the future of the Franco-German Main Ground Combat System, or MGCS, program was portrayed very darkly on both sides of the Rhine. It was not only a question of press extrapolations tinged with a certain rivalry between the two countries and their defense industries, but also of serious reservations expressed...
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Since the beginning of Russian aggression, Poland had been at the forefront of supplying arms to Ukraine. In a year and a half, Warsaw has delivered more than 300 T-72, PT-91 and Leopard 2A4 tanks, as well as 14 Mig-29s and numerous armored vehicles and munitions of all…
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For two years, and the official announcement of the AUKUS alliance bringing together Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, then of the SSN-AUKUS joint nuclear attack submarine program, the Australian authorities have been evolving, so to speak, in a state close to schizophrenia regarding the country's military programming. On the one hand, are they rave and...
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