Thank you to the British people for our freedom

But it is the lessons that I hope the Army would learn and the capability gaps it should identify that would be really important. I would hope that in conjunction to the in house trials, exercises would be conducted with the mechanised forces of our allies such as the United States, Italy and Franc...

I made a mistake in answering to the question posed by Timmymagic to Xav?

https://www.edrmagazine.eu/the-scarabee-crawls-forward Perhaps the substitute of the VBL, either the Scarabée or the Hawkei, this is exciting :D Why use sliding doors? Choice of engineers, we do not know, the CRAB had doors opening upwards, the Scarabee has sliding doors, it seems that they do not ...

https://www.edrmagazine.eu/the-scarabee-crawls-forward

Perhaps the substitute of the VBL, either the Scarabée or the Hawkei, this is exciting

French MoD Names Futures Light Joint Helicopter “Guepard”, Speeds Up its Procurement Xav is there any indication that the sea based H-160 will gain a folding tail? Or a 360 radar fit? Can the Gazelle hang on until 2026+ Sorry Xav, if I can afford, that link explains a lot. https://www.edrmagazine.e...

ArmChairCivvy wrote:Sad, especially in the light of those two needing to be freed went into an area with a 'kidnap warning' on.

Irresponsible people, that's true

Four western hostages, two french men, a US woman and a South Korean woman, have been freed by French forces in the West African country of Burkina Faso, two French soldiers and four kidnappers were killed. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/10/two-french-soldiers-killed-rescuing-hostages-in...

It is not right to advertise for vehicles of its own country

Between the Foxhound of 7 tonnes and the boxer of 38 tonnes, there must be vehicles of intermediate size. Boxer isn't 38 tonnes in base form, so everything over and above the supposed 24t baseload is Systems and appliqué armour. Same can probably be said of many platforms, and how you choose to tai...

Absolutely , although I do not know if this vehicle is small enough to be transported by C-130

I do not see in my mind that a vehicle of less than ten tonnes serves as a troop transport or patrol vehicle with the risk of mines and IEDs, between the Foxhound of 7 tonnes and the boxer of 38 tonnes, there must be vehicles of intermediate size. Once on the ground the Royal Marines and paratrooper...

there is a danger here that people desire to forget the lessons of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, believing that the lessons regarding protection levels are not relevant to conventional operations and manoeuvre combat. here may be, but the US army will use their JLTVs exactly for those ops, with...

If I can afford, the MoD has a larger budget than its French counterpart, you can not always ask for more financial means, you will have more expensive equipment than ours but in smaller numbers, for example the Boxer. Certainly a Boxer is not a Griffon, but we will have a little less than 1900 Grif...

We have the help of several Western countries but we are not numerous enough, it is difficult, especially not to seem to become a troop of occupation.

Is the Mali operation making any headway? New Gvmnt will not change "facts" on the ground In Mali, the security situation remained tense this week in the center of the country, because of the political dialogue organized in Bamako by the Malian president. In a radio and television speech ...

About the future engine of the FCAS :

https://www.safran-group.com/media/futu ... f-20190418

Before 2025, the Ejercito del Aire will have to replace twenty F-18 fighters located on the base of Gando (Canary Islands) and by 2030, the remaining 65. FCAS simply will not be ready. All those EF-18's need to be out of service by 2030 at the latest... It's already as good as confirmed that Spain ...

In any case, if we have to do an aircraft on our own we will do it, we will never buy American aircraft, we will not scuttle our defense industry !

their ideas in design taken into account Not what yours official said, quoting The German and French defense ministries then responded in April, offering Madrid the opportunity to observe the fledgling program as it took shape, but without the ability to shape its initial parameters. No reply had y...

Excuse me about Spain but I forgot. On 14 February the French, German and Spanish Defense Ministers signed a letter of intent to formalize Spain's entry into the FCAS program. Spanish participation in the program could represent € 25 million. Before 2025 , the Ejercito del Aire will have to replace...

Excuse me about Spain but I forgot. On 14 February the French, German and Spanish Defense Ministers signed a letter of intent to formalize Spain's entry into the FCAS program. Spanish participation in the program could represent € 25 million. Before 2025, the Ejercito del Aire will have to replace t...

I agree, the replacement of Leclerc and Rafale is scheduled for 2040, we have time, against the Germans seem more in the hurry, it would be good for us to have modern equipment financed by the Germans, but to choose, Dassault would have preferred the UK as a partner, but anyway there will be a succ...

I agree, the replacement of Leclerc and Rafale is scheduled for 2040, we have time, against the Germans seem more in the hurry, it would be good for us to have modern equipment financed by the Germans, but to choose, Dassault would have preferred the UK as a partner, but anyway there will be a succe...

Indeed, the German export control system is not only restrictive but also unpredictable because it focuses mainly on the German domestic policy of the moment and not only on the strict application of European criteria and international obligations. The success of Franco-German programs, such as the ...