Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary: France’s Dassault Rafale—nicknamed “Burst of Fire/Gust of Wind”—is a twin-engine, 4.5-gen multirole jet with quasi-stealth shaping, AESA radar, IRST, potent...
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Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The F-15EX Eagle II and Dassault Rafale take different paths to air dominance. -The F-15EX brings huge payload, range,...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Europe’s Future Combat Air System (FCAS)—the Franco-German-Spanish bid for a sixth-generation fighter—faces fresh turbulence over leadership and workshare. -Berlin...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Dassault’s Super Étendard is a compact, carrier-born strike fighter that punched far above its weight. -Its global coming-out was...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – France’s nuclear-powered carrier FS Charles de Gaulle (R91) just underscored Paris’s blue-water credibility with a long Indo-Pacific deployment, exercising...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – France’s Dassault Rafale and America’s F/A-18E/F Super Hornet are first-rate multirole fighters, but they win in different ways. -Rafale’s...
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Key Points and Summary – France’s Mirage 2000-5F fighters have delivered early gains for Ukraine, intercepting Russian cruise missiles and drones and adding precision...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – The 2009 Vanguard–Le Triomphant submarine bump showed how stealthy, passive, near-silent SSBNs can be invisible to each other—and how...
Military Hardware: Tanks, Bombers, Submarines and More
Key Points and Summary – Days after nearly two dozen Russian drones violated Polish airspace, France rapidly deployed three Dassault Rafale fighters to Poland—an...