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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...
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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...
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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...
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France has officially named its next-generation nuclear-powered aircraft carrier France Libre, after the Free French resistance movement led by Charles de Gaulle in World...
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France’s four Le Triomphant-class ballistic-missile submarines carry the entire French nuclear deterrent. Each 14,000-ton boat is propelled by a nuclear reactor, can reach more...