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Summary and Key Points: On paper, it shouldn’t have stood a chance. France’s Rubis-class is among the smallest nuclear attack submarines ever built —...
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France is building an 80,000-ton nuclear supercarrier, the FS France Libre — twice the displacement of the Charles de Gaulle and the largest warship...
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Europe’s biggest joint defense project has huge ambition, but its top players just cannot seem to get along on how it should proceed. The...
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Summary and Key Points: France is building six nuclear-powered Suffren-class attack submarines — alternately called the Barracuda-class in English — to replace the Cold...
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France’s next-generation aircraft carrier — formerly designated PANG, now renamed France Libre — will displace 80,000 tons, making it nearly twice the displacement of...
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‘A Combat Warplane’: The Dassault Rafale Fighter Doesn’t Care About the F-22 or F-35 Stealth Fighter
The Dassault Rafale is a French-built multirole fighter aircraft developed by Dassault Aviation to fulfill a wide variety of combat missions within a single...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Europe’s flagship fighter jet program might need a reset, or at least Airbus thinks so. The Future Combat Air System (FCAS), being spearheaded by...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
In November 2009, an Emirati pilot flying a French-built Mirage 2000 notionally shot down a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor during a joint wargame...
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A French Dassault Rafale fighter notionally shot down an American F-35A Lightning II at Exercise Atlantic Trident over Finland in 2025. Cockpit video shows...